Sébastien Chauvin - University of Amsterdam

PROFILE

I am an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam. From 2003 to 2006 I was a visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago, and from 2006 to 2008 a lecturer at the Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne. My research has dealt with labor, migration, gender, and sexuality issues, mostly in France and the United States. My dissertation was an in-depth participant ethnographic study of mostly undocumented Hispanic immigrant day laborers in Chicago, including the staffing industry that employed them, and the social movements in which they mobilized. It was awarded the EHESS best-dissertation award for 2007. In  more recent years I completed a collective study exploring the labor-market experience and following the union-supported mobilization of undocumented immigrant workers in France. My mainresearch focuses on the relationship between precarious work, thewelfare state,and civic inequality in Europe. I also maintain a strong interest in gender and sexuality studies, social capital and the sociology of elites, social theory and the sociology of knowledge.

Keywords: work and labor markets, race and immigration, gender and sexuality, political ethnography, social movements, sociological methods, social theory.

Main contact: chauvin   //at/  uva // dot // nl

Ph.D. 2007. Ecole normale supérieure (ENS) / Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
M.A. 2003. DEA de sciences sociales ENS/EHESS
2002: Agrégation of social and economic sciences (France)
2000-2001: Visiting graduate student, Department of sociology, University of California-Berkeley
2001: B.A. Sociology Université Paris 5 Descartes
1999-2003: ENS-Ulm

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La grève des sans-papiers

Pierre Barron, Anne Bory, Sébastien Chauvin, Nicolas Jounin, Lucie Tourette, On bosse ici, on reste ici ! La grève des sans-papiers : une aventure inédite. Paris: La Découverte, 2011.

Les agences de la précarité

Sébastien Chauvin, Les agences de la précarité. Journaliers à Chicago. Paris: Le Seuil, 2010

Introduction aux gender studies

Laure Bereni, Sébastien Chauvin, Alexandre Jaunait, Anne Revillard, Introduction aux gender studies. Brussels: De Boeck, 2008.