Catherine WIHTOL de WENDEN is Director of research at CNRS (CERI). For 30 years she has been a researcher on international migration, from a Political Science and Public Law approach. She studied in Sciences-Po Paris and University Paris I (Panthéon- Sorbonne) She got her Ph D in Political Science in 1986. She has published 20 books, alone or as co-writer and around 150 articles. She is also teaching at Sciences-Po, at the University La Sapienza and LUISS in Rome and she has been President of the Research Committee Migration of ISA –International Sociological Association- (2002-2008) and expert for several international organisations (UNHCR, Council of Europe and European Commission). Her distinctions are Chevalier de la legion d’hooneur (2014) and médaille d’honneur du CNRS (2017)
Her main books are Les immigrés et la Politique. Paris, Presses de Sc Po, 1988, Le défi migratoire (with Bertrand Badie, Presses de Sc Po, 1995, L’immigration en Europe, La Documentation française, 1999, Faut-il ouvrir les frontières, Presses de Sc Po, 1999, La Citoyenneté européenne, Presses de Sc Po 1997, La beurgeoisie (with Rémy Leveau), CNRS Editions 2001, Police et discriminations (with Sophie Body-Gendrot), L’Atelier, 2003, Atlas mondial des migrations , Autrement 2005, 2009 (2nd edition) and 2012 (3rd edition), Les couleurs du drapeau (with Christophe Bertossi), 2007, Sortir des banlieues (with Sophie Body-Gendrot), Autrement, 2007, La Globalisation humaine, PUF, 2009, La question migratoire au XXIème siècle Presses de Sciences-Po, 2010 and 2013 (2nd edition), Les Nouvelles migrations (Ellipses, 2013). Among her most recent books : Faut-il ouvrir les frontières ? Paris, Presses de Sciences-Po, 2014 (2nd edition) and Le droit d’émigrer, Paris CNRS Editions 2013 ; Policing the inner cities (with Sophie Body-gendrot), palgrave, 2014, Migrations in the Mediterranea. Socio-economic perspectives, Routledge 2016, Migrations en méditerranée, CNRS Editions 2015 (with Hélène Thiollet and Camille Schmoll), L’immigration, Eyrolles, 2016, Les migrations. Une nouvelle donne, FMSH 2016. Her Atlas mondial des migrations (Paris, Autrement 2016) has been published on her 4rd edition since 2005. A third edition was published in 2017 of La question migratoire au XXIème siècle and of Faut-il ouvrir les frontières?