The WE-GEMINA project is twofold and to be developed at different scales: a macro-transnational scale and a micro-local scale. The first part of the project is focused on the transnational narratives circulating on the social networks. Crossing sexism and xenophobia, they increase the gender inequalities and the discrimination based on real or supposed ethnic origin. A second and complementary component intends to identify, through a multi-situated approach, counter-narratives which could contribute to renewing the debate on gender in migration. In the global context of the rise of populism, and especially since 2011 and the wave of migration related to the Syrian civil war, the most extreme and anti-migrant discourses put pressure on all European debates on migration. Stated by politicians, circulating on social networks or available on websites or blogs, populist narratives on gender and migration activate distressing representations as well as biased perceptions of reality, which threaten the cohesion of societies, diminish their resilience and increase risks of violence against migrant women. In globalized populist rhetoric, xenophobic and sexist narratives are intertwined, so that offensives against migrant women seem specific: according to national contexts, they are suspected of taking undue advantage of social protection systems through their multiple pregnancies, of threatening secularism, challenging a family model based on a supposed gender equality, of transgressing gender norms, fueling prostitution and clandestine labor, or - in the most conspiratorial theses- to be the matrix of a "great replacement". However, the unequal gender, class and race relationships largely invisibilize the structural violence and multiple discrimination faced by migrant women. In fact, the diffusion of such distorted representations increases their physical, sexual, social or professional vulnerability. In order to counter the influence of the xenophobic and sexist discourses against migrant women, the proposal aims firstly to deconstruct, based on different national contexts, the rhetorical and technological forces of their effectiveness, secondly to identify alternative narratives that are likely to inflect them. It will not focus exclusively on female migrants outside the European Union, but on all women perceived as foreign and mobile people: European Roma women, Muslim or perceived Muslim migrants, racist sub-Saharan migrants, LBTQIA + migrants. Based on two major social networks providing narratives, Facebook and Twitter, and mobilizing specific software, the analysis of sexist and xenophobic narratives focus on their substance, but also on the tools and strategies of their dissemination. The question of the "past" will be investigated by the uses of a supposed past in populist narratives. Against the narratives grounded in an ethnocultural conception of the political community and seeking to create collective fear, the counter-narratives value the concrete experience of migration carried by mixed migrant and non-migrant communities. The identification of such counter-narratives should provide guidelines to enlighten different actors, including the press, associations and politicians, in resisting xenophobic themes and populist strategies. The project involves a consortium of research teams, complementary to each other and strongly sensitized to issues of gender and discrimination, from seven countries differently exposed to populist rhetoric.

In Spring 2020, the pandemic and the lockdown it led to gave birth to a large number of collect operations of traces of the event – photographs, stories, testimonies …. organized by cultural institutions and calling for citizen participation. Involving ordinary people in curating this « historical » time was meant to strengthen social cohesion and foster a « collective resilience ». The ArchiCOVID project aims at putting this expectation to the test. Who did actually take part to this social dynamics of curating the ordinary experiences of the pandemic (and who did not) ? What did these citizen-participants expect from being part of such a large archivistic initiative and what kind of impact did these collective practices have on them? On the other side of the spectrum, to what extent did these collect initiatives change the professional routines of those who launched them, mainly curators, archivists or librarians ? To answer these questions, and some others related to them, ArchiCOVID will conduct an in-depth study realizing quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews with participants and professionals as well as a general survey of the general population. In doing so, it will provide professionals for a global evaluation of their initiatives they have longed for. But, far beyond, it will assess to what extent this memory in construction is collective enough to be helpful in building a resilient society for the future.

The purpose of this interdisciplinary project is to study the socio-demographic, economic, and political consequences of the World War II in France. To this end, we will use historical quantitative data, and methods from both political science and economics. Distinguishing short-term and long-term impacts, we focus on three dimensions of the World War II: a foreign occupation and internal violence, an international war of liberation, and, finally, elites’ behaviors and institutions changes. According to the literature studying conflict in other context, conflicts impact economic and human capital, social capital, trust in institution and interpersonal trust, legitimacy of politicians and elite, and gender inequalities. To empirically study these potential impacts in France after World War II, we exploit various sources of data, and we plan to collect data dealing with the intensity and the spatial disparity of the various dimensions of the War in France and relate them to various post-war measures. In addition to previous monographic and qualitative studies, the project will broaden our knowledge of the effects of World War II and provide new empirical materials for historical political economy. We will consider the second world war in France at various geographic level and period of time to gauge its impacts on inequality within and between areas. In addition to spatial and time variations, the project aims at studying inequalities as a whole, should they be inter-generational or gender-based.

The EN-MIG project focuses on the forced migrations of children from different parts of the collapsing French colonial empire, first and foremost in Indochina, Algeria, Madagascar, but also Africa and areas that had been decolonised without achieving independence (like the overseas territories). This project takes into account the great diversity of these migrations, of which many were presented as "repatriations". Children were displaced with their families or parents, only with their siblings, or even alone and unaccompanied. The obligation to migrate originated with the French government and/or other actors more or less working with its support. Some groups of children were taken into the care of organisations, some were hosted in suitable centres or preexisting structures, and still others were placed in host families or even put up for adoption in France. EN-MIG aims to understand the individual motivations for integration into the host society among the children and young people who had been uprooted during a moment of crisis. To do this, it historically analyses the effects of postcolonial biopolitics on the personal growth of the child victims of forced migration. Using the preparatory work of three partner research laboratories (TEMOS at the Université d’Angers, ISP at the Université Paris-Nanterre, IMAf at the Aix-Marseille Université), the hypothesis underpinning this research is that the personal growth of child victims of forced migration resulted from connections between the relationships to surroundings and environment (such as policies of racialisation, organisation of care, and the location and type of accomodations), relationships with other people (such as families, parents, siblings, and religious or secular educators) and relationship to identity (such as race, gender, country of origin, climate and food, language and culture, name changes, or a family which remained in the home country). The three main research themes are: 1. The postcolonial nature of the displacements of mixed-race children. 2. Family relationships under the strain of forced migration under decolonisation. 3. Integration and subjective construction of displaced children. A transversal theme will focus on name changes (renaming) as a subjective process of reconstructing the displaced children. Thus, EN-MIG is situated at the junctions of several research fields that have already been widely studied separately (youth and empire-building, children and war, and migrations), but would need more extensive study of how they intersect. EN-MIG's main methodological choice is to propose a history based on the firsthand accounts of the children and young people directly concerned, as well as the accounts produced as they got older. It is a matter of doing history that is close to the ground, or more precisely history at the level of children, who are the main protagonists of this story. In order to do this, great importance will be accorded to their voices and stories, whether told during childhood or later during adulthood. This priority entails collaborative interactions between researchers and actors/witnesses: interviews, participatory observation, writing workshops, and photographs. Indeed, those directly concerned have high expectations in historical knowledge in order to understand what they were forced to undergo. Placing their personal life experiences in the larger historical context helps them to better understand their own history. Apart from academic publications, the results of this research will be displayed in various ways (such as videos, virtual exhibitions, and school sessions). EN-MIG will also help to enrich and deepen understanding of current migrations of children, accompanied or not.

The SenS action research project focuses on the study, development and evaluation of the impact of mediation actions on scientific knowledge, representations and attitudes of trust or distrust towards science and critical thinking of various target audiences: children, young people, students, adults. According to design-basedresearch, mediation actions will be developed on several themes: platism, sexual dimorphism of the brain, gravitational waves and transhumanism, selected for their social and / or media liveliness and the development of false information and fallacious arguments about them, and their relevance for understanding the methods of production of scientific knowledge. A digital device for L1 students has already been developed on these themes to develop the critical skills of audiences exposed to various and contradictory discourses on science. It is already operational, and it will be extended to other audiences. The comparative study of different themes and mediation actions with the digital device already developed, will allow us to identify the advantages and obstacles to mediation and communication, and in the propositional and pragmatic dimension of action research, to develop potential solutions. We will produce knowledge on the constituent elements of an effective design of scientific mediation and communication activities on the selected themes. In the analytical dimension of action-research, our results relating to scientific knowledge, trust / mistrust in science and critical thinking of different audiences will contribute to the understanding of contemporary changes in science-society relations and information disorder.