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Stefan Le Courant

Stefan LE COURANT

Dr Stefan Le Courant

Researcher

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Stefan Le Courant is an anthropologist whose research explores two main areas:

  • Borders and migrant experiences
  • Daily life under (legal, political, ecological, mystical) threats and dangers

His assignment to IFRA Ibadan is an opportunity to begin new research on missing people in migration contexts.           

Based on two field studies (in Nigeria and Côte d'Ivoire), the aim is to understand the effects of these unexplained disappearances and to identify the different ways of dealing with them. These investigations focus on ways of searching for, finding, bringing home, or mourning those who have been absent for years.

Latest publications

Books

Diakahté B., Diallo A., Le Courant S., Millerand C., Zougbede E., Forthcoming, Au travail !, Editions d’une rive à l’autre, Paris.

Le Courant S., 2022 Vivre sous la menace. Les sans-papiers et l’État, Le Seuil, Paris.

Articles

Andro G., Le Bonhomme F., Le Courant S., 2025, « Faire l’histoire d’une prison désaffectée avec ses anciens acteurs : retour sur une recherche participative en histoire orale (PriMem, Rennes) », Mouvements, 119 [en ligne].

Aguilera M., Boëx C., Jakšić M., Le Courant S. 2025, « Pister les preuves. Du doute à l’élaboration des faits », Tracés, 46 [en ligne].

Le Courant S., 2024 « Dos nombres y muchas fronteras », Papeles de Identidad. Contar la investigación de frontera, 2 (312) [en ligne].

Chauvin S., Le Courant S., Tourette L., 2021 « Working with Irregular Status: Undocumented Migrants and the Moral Economy of Employment », Revue Européenne des migrations internationales, 37(1-2) [en ligne]

Tags: Anthropology

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