About
Thomas Douniès is a CNRS research fellow at CERAPS (UMR 8026 - Université de Lille).
His research focuses on political socialization, transformations in public action and inequalities between social groups. He has recently published: "Les soupapes de l'État. La régulation militante de la scolarisation des migrant-es", Revue française de science politique, 74 (1), 2024; "Mettre au travail les mineurs non accompagnés. Une économicisation silencieuse de l'assistance publique", Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 257, 2025.
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Putting unaccompanied migrant minors to work
Une économicisation silencieuse de l’assistance publique
In Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales (2025/2 N° 257)
Experiences of the State and the interweaving of social relations
In Cahiers du Genre (2024/1 No 76)
Talking politics in the classroom
Ethnography of political socialization in a school context
In Sociétés contemporaines (2019/2 No 114)
Understanding the “black box” of representative bureaucracy
- Traduction Celeste Watkins-Hayes,
- Stéphanie Alkofer,
- Thomas Douniès
- et al.
In Cahiers du Genre (2024/1 No 76)
The Escape Valves of the State
The Militant Regulation of Migrant Education
In Revue française de science politique (2024/1 Nº74)
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Articles
Being here but not from here. Subjectivations and contradictions of the experiences of the State in migration
In Politix (2024/4 n° 148)
Putting unaccompanied migrant minors to work
Une économicisation silencieuse de l’assistance publique
In Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales (2025/2 N° 257)
The Escape Valves of the State
The Militant Regulation of Migrant Education
In Revue française de science politique (2024/1 Nº74)
Understanding the “black box” of representative bureaucracy
- Traduction Celeste Watkins-Hayes,
- Stéphanie Alkofer,
- Thomas Douniès
- et al.
In Cahiers du Genre (2024/1 No 76)
Experiences of the State and the interweaving of social relations
In Cahiers du Genre (2024/1 No 76)
The participatory making of the programmatic offer. Campaigning metamorphoses and school depoliticization in the “Amiens c’est l’tien” list for the 2020 municipal elections
In Participations (2023/1 No 35)
Mobilizing reception studies for the multi-level analysis of public policy
The case of education policies
In Réseaux (2021/2 No 226-227)
Natalie Papanastasiou, The Politics of Scale in Policy Scalecraft and Education Governance
In Sociologie (2021/1 Vol. 12)
The two sides of an implementation story
Slack between saying and doing in applying the reform of moral and civic education
In Gouvernement et action publique (2020/2 Vol. 9)
Talking politics in the classroom
Ethnography of political socialization in a school context
In Sociétés contemporaines (2019/2 No 114)
The voices of France
The centralized and standardized production of local radio newsflashes
In Politiques de communication (2019/1 No 12)
Issues
Experiences of the state
An intersectional approach
Cahiers du Genre (2024/1 No 76)- Coordinated by Prunelle Aymé,
- Thomas Douniès
- and Gwenaëlle Perrier