Karen Akoka is a political scientist and sociologist. Her work focuses, among other things, on the sociology of immigration, exile and the politics of asylum and hospitality.
Karen Akoka
Conference
Asylum and exile. A history of the distinction between migrants / refugees
04/12/2021 - 04:30 PM 06:30 PMOn April 12 2021 we the great pleasure of hosting a virtual CRASH conference with political scientist and sociologist Karen Akoka, fresh from her publication in November of “Asylum and Exile. A History of the Refugee/Migrant Distinction" (La Découverte, 2020). The author describes and analyzes the trajectory of OFPRA, the French institution founded in 1952 and responsible for granting refugee status; she provides an insight into how the history of the distinction between migrants and refugees was established in France.