About

Virginie Guiraudon (PhD, 1997, Harvard) is CNRS Director of Research at the Sciences Po Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics in Paris. Early on, her work focused on the comparative politics of migration and citizenship. For the last twenty years, she has studied EU policy processes, in particular the emergence of a EU immigration, asylum, external borders policy domain as well as EU antidiscrimination laws. Her research agenda also includes the sociology of European integration to better understand the bases and effects of European political integration. In 2011, she coedited Sociology of the European Union with Adrian Favell (Palgrave). She is the recipient of the 2013 ECPR Mattei Dogan prize in European Political Sociology. Virginie Guiraudon recently coedited the volume Europe’s Prolonged Crisis. The making and Unmaking of a Political Union (Palgrave, 2015) and published “The 2015 refugee crisis was not a turning point: explaining policy inertia in EU border control” in European Political Science (July 2017). She was elected to the executive committee of EUSA (European Union Studies Association) in 2002 and of the Council for European Studies in 2012. She was the academic convenor of the 9th ECPR SGEU conference in Paris in June 2018.

Research Interests

Citizenship, Civil Society, Comparative Politics, European Politics, European Union, Governance, Government, Human Rights, International Relations, Migration, Social Movements, Social Policy, Social Welfare, Welfare State, Political Sociology, Immigration, Race, Comparative Perspective, Europeanisation through Law, Mobilisation, NGOs, Policy Change, Policy Implementation, Policy-Making, Refugee

Current/Upcoming Events

Standing Groups and Research Networks

• European Union
• Gender and Politics