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Nacira Guénif-Souilamas has a Phd in Sociology from l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, she is Associate Professor at the University of Paris Nord and research fellow at Experice (Paris 13-Paris 8). Her Phd dissertation was awarded « Le prix le Monde de la recherche universitaire » published as Des beurettes aux descendantes d’immigrants nord-africains, Grasset (2000), and in a paperback edition under the title Des beurettes, Hachette-Pluriel (2003), translated in arabic in 2004. She has co-authored with Éric Macé Les féministes et le garçon arabe, L’Aube (2004, paperback edition in 2006). She has edited La république mise à nu par son immigration, La Fabrique (2006). A number of her contributions appear in edited volumes : La fracture coloniale, Qui a peur de la télévision en couleurs ?, La situation postcoloniale, La reconnaissance dans les société contemporaines, Repenser l’éducation préscolaire, Histoire politique des luttes de l’immigration (post)coloniale), Migration und Menschenrechte in Europa  ; and articles in reviews and journals such as La Revue Européenne des Migration Internationales ; French Politics, Culture and Society ; Contemporary French Civilization (invited ed) ; Cosmopolitiques (invited ed) ; Mouvements ; VEI Diversité ; European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. She is currently completing a serie of chapters for forthcoming edited volumes : La fracture postcoloniale, Israeli-Paslestinian Conflict in the Francophone World, and articles for the Feminist Review, Yale French Studies, The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. She contributes to public debates on migrations and discriminations issues, ethnic and racial statistical categories, gender and sexism. She is a board member of the TERRA network.