Sara VIGIL

Curriculum Vitae CONTACT INFORMATION Professional information: Personal information: Centre d’Etudes de l’Ethnicité et des Nationality: Spanish Migrations (CEDEM) 64 rue du Page, 1050 Université de Liège Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium Tel. +32 476071153 Institut des Sciences Humaines et Sociales 7 Bvd du Rectorat, B31 4000 Liège, Belgium Tel. +32 43663128 Sara.vigil@ulg.ac.be EDUCATION 2013-2017 University of Liège – Belgium PhD candidate in Political and Social Sciences

Research project: “Climate change, large-scale land acquisitions and migration in Senegal and Cambodia”. Thesis directors: Prof. Marco Martiniello and Dr. François Gemenne

2010-2011 University Paris Descartes Sorbonne – France

Master of Research 2 (MRes) in Sociology: European Construction and Social Sciences Dissertation entitled: “A new environmental stake: human migration” Graduated with First Class Honours

2006-2012 UNED – Spain

Political Science and International Relations 2009-2012: Dual program Madrid/Paris Graduated with High Honours

ACADEMIC POSTS 2013-Present

Research Fellow F.R.S.-FNRS (National Fund for Scientific Research) University of Liège-CEDEM (Centre d’études de l’ethnicité et des migrations) Member of the Management Committe for the EU COST Action IS1101 : Climate change and migration : knowledge, law and policy, and theory

Associated team member : High-End cLimate Impacts and eXtremes (HELIX) EU FP7 Project

2015 - Present Associate Lecturer in International Relations – Sciences Po, Paris.

“Global Public Goods. International Cooperation in a Globalized World.” 2011 – 2013

Research Assistant – Center of Philosophy, Epistemology and Politics (PHILéPOL) University Paris Descartes-Sorbonne – Paris

Program: « Territories, environment and citizenship in Europe » (CNRS) Program: « Democracy in front of environmental stakes» (ANR-DEMOENV

PUBLICATIONS F.Gemenne, J. Blocher, F. de Longueville, Perrin. N. Vigil. S, Zickgraf, C. & Ozer, P. 2015. “How climate extremes are affecting the movement of populations in the Asia Pacific region” in, S.Price and J. Singer (eds.), Global Implications of Development, Disasters and Climate Change: Responses to Displacement from Asia Pacific, Routledge, New York. pp. 21-40. F.Gemenne, J. Blocher, F. de Longueville, Perrin. N. Vigil. S, Zickgraf, C. & Ozer, P. 2014: “Catastrophes, Changement Climatique et Deplacements Forcés: Dynamiques regionals de mobilité en Afrique de l’Ouest.” Note de Cadrage pour l’Initiative Nansen: http://www.nanseninitiative.org/sites/default/files/West%20Africa%20Background%20Paper_%20Francais.pdf Vigil, S. “Displacement as a consequence of climate change mitigation policies.” Forced Migration Review. Oxford. (May 2015) : http://www.fmreview.org/climatechange-disasters/vigil Blocher, J. Gharbaoui, D & Vigil, S. “West Africa: a testing ground for regional solutions.” Forced Migration Review. Oxford. (May 2015) : http://www.fmreview.org/climatechange-disasters/blocher-gharbaoui-vigil Zickgraf, C., Vigil, S., De Longuevillle, F., Ozer, P., & Gemenne, F. The Impact of Vulnerability and Resilience to Environmental Change on Mobility Patterns in West Africa. Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD). World Bank. Washington D.C. (in press, forthcoming 2015). Vigil, S. 2012. “The model of Almeria: temporary migration programs as a solution for environmentally-induced migration”, in The State of Environmental Migration 2011, Iddri /IOM, Paris. pp. 107-122. Vigil, S. 2012. “Les Guerres du Climat”, in Revue Cités, Le populisme contre les peuples?, Paris, PUF. Translation : Jürgen Habermas : L'Europe paralysée d'effroi – La crise de l'Union européenne à la lumière d'une constitutionnalisation du droit international public (co-translation from English to French), in Revue Cités, Le populisme contre les peuples ? PUF, (Paris, January 2012)

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS “Methodological challenges of conducting politically sensitive research. The case of land grab-induced migration”, European Union Joint Research Center. 2015. Seville, Spain. Vigil, S & Zickgraf, C., “Migration in the Senegal delta at 4°C.” In panel : Migration in deltas under a climate and human-changed future: Promoting successful migration. Final conference of COST Action IS1101 Climate change and migration: knowledge, law and policy, and theory: Human migration and the Environment: Futures, Politics, Invention. 2015. Durham, United Kingdom. “Climate change, large-scale land acquisitions and population dynamics in Senegal.” Final conference of COST Action IS1101 Climate change and migration: knowledge, law and policy, and theory: Human migration and the Environment: Futures, Politics, Invention. 2015. Durham, United Kingdom. “Migration associated with land grabbing. ” Panel : Migration Dynamics under Current and Future Climate Change Scenarios. Our Common Future Under Climate Change. 2015. UNESCO, Paris, France. “Collective national and transnational action towards ‘green grabbing’. ” Panel : Collective citizen action and the setting-up of new norms, institutionnal practices towards radical political changes. Our Common Future Under Climate Change. 2015. UNESCO, Paris, France. “Green grabbing-induced displacement? Integrating the political economy of land into environmental migration studies. ” IMISCOE Annual Conference : 'Rights, Democracy and Migration - Challenges and Opportunities'. 2015. Geneva, Switzerland. “Agro-combustibles: quels enjeux pour les pays du Sud?”, Final Conference of ANR-DEMOENV: La démocratie face aux enjeux environnementaux. La transition énergétique, Palais Bourbon, Paris, France, 12 December 2014 “Climate change, neoliberalism and large-scale land acquisitions: Consequences on Senegalese mobility”, COST Workshop: Climate Change, Migration & Neoliberalism, Lund, Sweden, 11-12 September, 2014 “Migration for the adaptation of agriculture to climate change in dry lands. Analysing the REVA Plan”, Third International Climate Change Adaptation Conference, Adaptation Futures 2014: Fortaleza, Brazil, 12-16 May 2014 “Intensive Agriculture and Groundwater Resources: The case of the Campo de Dalias in Almeria (Spain)”, Sixth International Conference of the Tunisian World Centre for Studies, Research and Development: “Between abundance and scarcity: Water and societies in the Arab-Mediterranean world and the countries of the South”: Monastir, Tunisia, 18-20 April, 2014 “Crisis and migration: The case of Senegalese migrants in Almeria’s agricultural sector”, Sixth Triennial Congress of the Belgian Political Science Association: Liège, Belgium, 10-11 April 2014 “Presentation of achievements of the ANR-DEMOENV project”, Seminar of the National Research Agency (ANR) on Environmental Changes: Toulouse, France, 17-18 April 2013

“Environmental Migration and Human Rights”, Conference on Climate Change and Human Rights: Sorbonne-Paris, France, 25 May 2013 Poster presentation “ANR-DEMONV project”, International Conference CNFCG “Global Changes: Stakes and Challenges”: Toulouse, France, July 9-11 2012

“Climate Migration between North Africa and Southern Europe”, Conference A World in Transformation: Climate Change and Human Migration: Sorbonne-Paris, France, 15 June 2012 “Vulnerability, adaptation and environmental migration”, Seminar Ecology and Territories: Values, Norms and Justice: Arcachon, France, 19-22 November 2012

“The Consequences of Radical Growth: The Case of Almeria”, Seminar Environmental Controversies on Growth and Degrowth: Territorial, Social and Political Equity, Aix-les-Bains, France, 7-9 September 2011 RESEARCH INTERESTS Migration, Human Rights, Democracy, Environmentally Induced Migration, Forced

Displacement, Climate Change, Agro-Industrial Systems, Agro-Ecology, Large-Scale Land

Acquisitions, Political Economy, Qualitative Methodology, International Relations.

ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC EVENTS Co-convener of a workshop : Combining quantitative and qualitative methods for a better understanding of the climate change-migration nexus, EU Joint Research Center, 2015, Seville, Spain. Co-convener of two panels : Environmental Migration in West Africa. IMISCOE Annual Conference : “Rights, Democracy and Migration - Challenges and Opportunities.” 2015. Geneva, Switzerland. Co-convener of a panel on Environmental Migration in West Africa. Final conference of COST Action IS1101 Climate change and migration: knowledge, law and policy, and theory: Human migration and the Environment: Futures, Politics, Invention. 2015. Durham, United Kingdom. Conference: “Climate Change and Human Rights”: Sorbonne-Paris, France, 25 May, 2013 Conference: “A World in Transformation: Climate Change and Human Migration”: Sorbonne-Paris, France, 15 June, 2012 Seminar: “Ecology and Territories: Values, Norms and Justice”: Arcachon, France, November 19-22, 2012 Seminar: “Environmental Controversies on Growth and Degrowth: Territorial, Social and Political Equity”: Aix-les-Bains, September 7-9, 2011

Conference: “How to overcome the present crisis?” with Jürgen Habermas: University Paris Descartes-Paris, France, November 10, 2011 SELECTED HONORS AND GRANTS 2015 Field research grant from the National Fund for Scientific Research (Phnom Pehn, Cambodia). Visiting researcher: Research Group on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CGIAR) 2014 Field research grant from the National Fund for Scientific Research (Saint Louis, Senegal) Visiting researcher : Groupe d’Etudes et de Recherches sur les Migrations (GERM), Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis 2014 Field research grant from the National Fund for Scientific Research (Almeria, Spain) 2013-2017 Research fellowship for PhD from the National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS-Belgium) 2012 Graduated with high honors from UNED-Madrid 2011 First class honors in MRes Sociology (Université Paris Descartes-Sorbonne-Paris) 2009 Erasmus grant (UNED-Madrid) CONSULTATIONS World Bank, Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development: http://www.knomad.org/ Nansen Initiative: https://www.nanseninitiative.org/ INVITED LECTURES “Migrations et crise écologique: quels enjeux pour les pays du Sud?”, Formation du Centre tricontinental (CETRI) : Nouveaux Enjeux Nord-Sud dans la Mondialisation, Charleroi, Belgium, 2nd December 2014 “Large Scale Land Acquisitions & Food Security”, International Studies Abroad Program, Paris, France, 29th September 2014 “Cambio Climático y Migraciones Humanas”, Master Migration and Development, Universidad de Almeria, Spain, 17th March 2014

“Ethics and the environment: the case of environmental migration”, Master 2 Res. at University Paris Descartes Sorbonne: “Medicine, speciality research in ethics”; UE 9: “Ethics and the environment: environment and human being”, University Paris Descartes, 3rd May 201

PROFESSIONAL NETWORKS Research Network-International Migration, Integration, Social Cohesion in Europe (IMISCOE): www.imiscoe.org Center of Philosophy, Epistemology and Politics (PHILéPOL): http://philosophieparisdescartes.wordpress.com/ Research Network-EU COST Action IS1101: Climate change and migration: knowledge, law and policy, and theory: http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/isch/Actions/IS1101 LANGUAGES Spanish: Native speaker English: Bilingual French: Excellent

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