Director of studies at Crash / Médecins sans Frontières, Michaël Neuman graduated in Contemporary History and International Relations (University Paris-I). He joined Médecins sans Frontières in 1999 and has worked both on the ground (Balkans, Sudan, Caucasus, West Africa) and in headquarters (New York, Paris as deputy director responsible for programmes). He has also carried out research on issues of immigration and geopolitics. He is co-editor of "Humanitarian negotiations Revealed, the MSF experience" (London: Hurst and Co, 2011). He is also the co-editor of "Saving lives and staying alive. Humanitarian Security in the Age of Risk Management" (London: Hurst and Co, 2016).
Michaël Neuman
Consultations on asylum and immigration bill: MSF denounces ‘‘a fool’s game”
01/12/2018 Michaël NeumanAbstaining from participation in a meeting taking place this coming Thursday, MSF feels that "government officials have listened politely at best and shown condescension and contempt at worst in response to positions expressed in meetings, op-ed pieces published in the press and questions asked in meetings by NGOs" and do not hide "a policy that is sliding into harsh repression".
Sheltering, hosting or receiving refugees: the unresolved ambiguities of the La Linière refugee camp
07/05/2017 Michaël Neuman Franck EsnéeFollowing the dismantlement of the Basroch camp in Grande-Synthe and the resettlement of refugees in the new La Linière camp, in the spring 2016, Michaël Neuman and Franck Esnée wanted to focus their analysis and story on the “camp” – as an object –, its nature and management. This article was originally published in Alternatives Humanitaires #5, in July 2017.
Summer reading
07/03/2017 Rony Brauman Jean-Hervé Bradol Michaël Neuman Marc Le Pape Judith Soussan Fabrice WeissmanA selection of books chosen by members of Crash. Happy summer and happy reading !
Calais has become a cage in a jungle
06/17/2017 Michaël Neuman Corinne TorreIn this post, published in Border Criminologies, Michaël Neuman and Corinne Torre speak out against the inhuman conditions imposed on migrants and refugees in Calais by the French state. This piece was originally published in French in Le Monde.
Review "Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of practice"
03/30/2017 Michaël NeumanMichaël Neuman's review of "Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of practice" edited by Sharon Abramowitz and Catherine Panter-Brick (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
Dying for humanitarian ideas: Using images and statistics to manufacture humanitarian martyrdom
02/15/2017 Michaël NeumanThis article has been inspired by an analysis conducted by MSF-Crash of humanitarian security management and why and in what ways it is evolving. We endeavour not only to describe humanitarian imagery, but to analyse its consequences - the risks it generates for aid workers operating in perilous situations.
Temporary palliatives to an ongoing humanitarian need: MSF’s intervention in Dunkirk
11/24/2016 Angélique Muller Michaël NeumanThis article was originally published in Humanitarian Exchange Magazine #67 in September 2016. In this paper, Angélique Muller and Michaël Neuman attempt to explore the lessons learnt through examining the decisions as well as the difficulties MSF encountered in its provision of assistance to migrants in Grande-Synthe.
From Dadaab to Calais: what are the alternatives to the refugee camp?
11/18/2016 Rony Brauman Michaël NeumanMSF Crash's directors of studies, Rony Brauman and Michaël Neuman talk about MSF's refugee camp experience.
Humanitarian diplomacy, a fig leaf for extreme violence
09/27/2016 Michaël Neuman Fabrice WeissmanInterview with Michaël Neuman and Fabrice Weissman, research directors at Crash. On Wednesday 28 September, MSF is invited to attend a UN Security Council briefing on resolution 2286, adopted in May 2016, which strongly condemns attacks against medical personnel and establishments in conflict situations.