Valérie Sala Pala is professor of political science at the University of Saint-Étienne Jean Monnet and a researcher within the Triangle mixed research unit (UMR CNRS 5206). Her research focuses on reconfigurations of urban policies, the sociology of ethnicity and discrimination, housing and settlement policies, and the urban strategies of shrinking cities. Her publications include Discriminations ethniques. Les politiques du logement social en France et au Royaume-Uni (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2013) and Le Peuplement comme politique(s), a collective work co‑edited with Fabien Desage and Christelle Morel Journel (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2014).