Anaïs Collet

Anaïs Collet is a sociologist, an assistant professor at the University of Strasbourg, a member of the SAGE joint research unit (Sociétés, Acteurs et Gouvernement en Europe – Societies, Actors and Government in Europe; UMR CNRS 7363), and an associate researcher at INED (Institut National d’Études Démographiques – French Institute for Demographic Studies). She is also a junior member of the IUF (Institut Universitaire de France – Academic Institute of France) for a five-year term from 2020 to 2025.

Her research focuses on the gentrification of formerly working-class neighborhoods, middle-class populations, residential mobility between urban and rural areas, and the socialization of children in the city. She is the author of Rester bourgeois. Les quartiers populaires, nouveaux chantiers de la distinction (La Découverte, 2015), and the co‑author (with Marie Chabrol, Matthieu Giroud, Lydie Launay, Max Rousseau, and Hovig Ter Minassian) of Gentrifications (Éditions Amsterdam, 2016; also available in English: Gentrifications. Views from Europe, Berghahn Books, 2022). In addition, she co‑edited (with Jean‑Yves Authier, Colin Giraud, Jean Rivière, and Sylvie Tissot) the collective work Les Bobos n’existent pas (Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 2018).