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During this lunch seminar, Lamia Mellal will present her research on post-2015 securitization policies in French schools. Her PhD, part of the project Deradicalizing the City, explores how post-attack security measures affect Muslim minorities across Europe. She conducted a year-long ethnography in two high schools in Marseille’s northern districts—areas heavily stigmatized and targeted by policies securing school infrastructures and monitoring students, especially those racialized as Muslim and framed as potential threats. Using collaborative methods, she worked with pupils through workshops producing podcasts and short films to examine their situated experiences. This presentation focuses on the gendered dimension of Islamophobia, particularly clothing restrictions on Muslim girls, and how these rules shape students’ resistance strategies within schools.

Lamia Mellal is a PhD candidate in Anthropology (KU Leuven) and Sociology (ULB). Her work focuses on Islamophobia in France and on the school as a site where ethno-racial discrimination is produced and reproduced. She is currently completing her dissertation within the research project Deradicalizing the City (FWO).

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CRCG lunch seminar with Lamia Mellal - Threatened Bodies, Threatening Bodies: Gendered and Racialized Boundaries in the French School after the 2015 Attacks. | Meeting-Join | Microsoft Teams