Visiting PhD student | Winter 2027

Contact : lio.ando-bourguet@etu.u-paris.fr

Presentation

Lio Ando-Bourguet (she/her) is a PhD candidate in migration and interethnic relations at the Université Paris-Cité in France, working under the supervision of Laurent Faret (CESSMA) and Jane Freedman (CRESPPA). Her research focuses on anti-colonial practices, relations and reflexivity within solidarity networks in the Sonoran Desert, at the Mexico/U-S border. Born in Tokyo, she enjoys hypermobility as a French-Japanese dual citizen and has relations in Japan, France, the United Kingdom and Turtle Island, where she travels regularly as a non-invited visitor.

Areas of expertise

• Border studies
• Feminist methodologies
• Epistemology
• Solidarity and activism
• Indigeneity 

Publications

Ando-Bourguet, Lio (à venir). "The challenges of unsettling migration studies: reflections on the need for anticolonial research design", dans Nina Sahraoui, Jane Freedman et Elsa Tyszler (eds.), Unsettling Migration Studies. Postcolonial, Decolonial and Intersectional Perspectives on Research and Teaching, Bristol University Press.