Catherine Wihtol de Wenden

Catherine Wihtol de Wenden (born June 6, 1950[1]) is a French political scientist. She is the Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and a senior researcher at the Institute for International Political Studies. Wihtol de Wenden specializes in migration studies. She is also an activist for the right to immigration in France.

Catherine Wihtol de Wenden
Wihtol de Wenden in 2015
NationalityFrench
Alma materInstitute for International Political Studies
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions

Career

Wihtol de Wenden earned a PhD from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris in 1986.[2] She then joined the political science faculty of the French National Centre for Scientific Research, where she later became Research Director.[3] She is also a senior researcher at the Institute for International Political Studies.[4]

Wihtol de Wenden has been a consultant to the OECD, the Council of Europe, and the European Commission as well as an external expert to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.[5] She was also a member of the French National Commission on Security Ethics (fr) from 2003 to 2011.[6]

In 2014, she was named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.[4] In 2018, she was promoted to the rank of Officier.[7] She also won the médaille d'honneur from the French National Centre for Scientific Research in 2017.[4]

Wihtol has been vocal in the French media in support of loosening restrictions on migration to France.[8][9][10][11]

Selected works
  • Citoyenneté, nationalité et immigration, Arcantère, 1987
  • Les immigrés et la politique. Cent-cinquante ans d'évolution, Presses de la FNSP, 1988
  • Les étrangers dans la cité. Expériences européennes, with Olivier Le Cour Grandmaison, La Découverte, 1993
  • La bourgeoisie. Les trois âges de la vie associative issue de l'immigration, with R. Leveau, CNRS Ed., 2001. (pocket edition 2007, ISBN 978-2271065964)
  • Atlas des migrations: Un équilibre mondial à inventer, 2012, ISBN 978-2746730816.
  • Pour accompagner les migrations en Méditerranée, L'Harmattan, 2013, ISBN 978-2-343-01077-9
  • L'Immigration. Découvrir l'histoire, les évolutions et les tendances des phénomènes migratoires, Eyrolles, 2016, ISBN 978-2-212-56472-3

Selected awards
  • Officier, Legion of Honor[7]
  • Médaille d'honneur, French National Centre for Scientific Research[4]

References
  1. "BnF General catalog". Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  2. "Catherine Wihtol de Wenden". SUDOC. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  3. "Catherine Wihtol de Wenden". Ideas for Development. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  4. "Catherine Wihtol de Wenden". Institute for International Political Studies. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  5. "Catherine Wihtol de Wenden". French Cultural Centre of New York. 19 October 2016. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  6. "Catherine Wihtol de Wenden". The Cairo Review. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  7. "Décret du 19 mai 2018 portant promotion et nomination" (in French). Legifrance, Government of France. 19 May 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  8. Catherine Wihtol de Wenden; Hélène Decommer (6 October 2014). "Eric Zemmour à "ONPC" : au moins 3 erreurs sur l'immigration, voici la réalité". Le Nouvel Obs (in French). Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  9. Catherine Wihtol de Wenden (23 October 2013). "Le danger du contrôle de l'immigration". La Croix (in French). Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  10. "Covid-19 : "vouloir fermer les frontières est inutile", tranche Catherine Wihtol de Wenden". Franceinfo. 28 February 2020. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  11. "« Les migrants interrogent la France, l'Europe et la planète tout entière »". L'Est Républicain (in French). 14 January 2020. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
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