Gaëlle is a PhD Fellow at UNU-CRIS focusing on access to social welfare and social services in situations of regional separatism. Her research investigates civil society organizations’ role in facilitating this access within and across de facto borders. The two cases study she looks at are Abkhazia and Transnistria, two de facto states which parted respectively from Georgia and Moldova in the 1990s.
Work
Ghent University
Belgium
United Nations University
Japan
Education
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne UFR Science Politique
France
College of Europe
Belgium
Publications
Humanitarian, linguistic and narrative bordering in Georgia: migrations in the context of Russia’s war on Ukraine