Céline Cantat
Céline Cantat is a Postdoctoral Researcher based in Sciences Po Paris, as part of the MAGYC project.
Previously, Céline was a Marie Curie Individual Fellow at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest where she was working on ‘MigSol: Migration Solidarity and Acts of Citizenship along the Balkan Route’, a 24-month research project studying solidarity with and by migrants and refugees along the Balkan route. Céline also worked as Academic Program Manager of CEU’s OLIve-UP, a university preparatory program for refugee students, and conducted a postdoctoral project concerned with migration solidarity movements in Hungary.
Céline holds a PhD in Refugee Studies from the Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging, at the University of East London, and spent a year at Migrinter, Université de Poitiers, as an INTEGRIM Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher. Her PhD research was looking at pro-migrant organisations and networks in France, Italy and the UK and the construction of political responses to the European Union border regime. She has previously gained an MSc in Globalisation and Development from SOAS, University of London, and a BA in European Studies from King’s College London. Céline has also worked and volunteered with migrants’ rights’ organisations in London and Paris, as well as with refugee groups in Syria.
