Dr Clio Chaveneau is Associate Professor of sociology at Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi and the director of “SAFIR”, the Research Institute of SUAD. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Paris Descartes-Sorbonne (2016). With a specialisation in migration studies, her research is focused on privileged mobilities and contemporary social dynamics in the Middle East (Palestine and the UAE) such as urban and ethnic diversity, mixed marriages and transnational families.

She is the author of “Les Internationaux en Palestine: Portrait d’une migration singulière” (2018, l’Harmattan) and co-author of “Abu Dhabi Public Spaces: Urban Encounters, Social Diversity and (in)formality” (2021, Motivate Media Group).

Recent publications:

Chaveneau C. (2024), “Positionnements et ambivalences face au privilège de mobilité des « internationaux » dans les territoires palestiniens occupés », Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, 40 (2 & 3), pp. 13-35

Chaveneau C., (2023) « “Arabic Pop Art” on Instagram: Questioning the Representations of Arabness and Khaleejiness in Digital Art », Arabian Humanities [En ligne], 18 | 2023

Chaveneau, C. (2022). “Chapter 7 Privilege in Migration: The Benefits of Nationality for Northern Migrants in the Middle East”. In Expatriation and Migration. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.

Chaveneau, C., & Dubucs, H. (2021). Questioning Cosmopolitanism through the Biographical Trajectories of French Residents of Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Journal of Arabian Studies, 11(2), 223–242.

Kyriazis, A., Chaveneau, C., & Dubucs, H. (2021). Abu Dhabi public spaces; Urban encounters, social diversity and (in) formality. Motivate Media Group.

Co-direction des volumes 14 et 18 d’Arabian Humanities consacré à la “Culture pop dans la péninsule arabique”, avec Frédéric Lagrange (vol. 14 et 18) et laure Assaf (vol.18).