Félicien De Heusch

Visiting Scholar
Bunche Hall, Rm 10343
fdeheusch@international.ucla.edu
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Keywords: Migrations

Dr. Félicien de Heusch joined the Latin American Institute (LAI) as a Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Fellow in January 2024. His project, "Becoming a legal street vendor: opportunities, obstacles and inequalities among migrants in Los Angeles", is supervised by Dr. Rubén Hernández-Léon. The project aims to analyze the implementation of the street vending regulation and its variable distribution. Revealing the inclusion/exclusion processes migrant street vendors face in LA, therefore, displays the way public space is regulated and offers comparative grounds for the management of multicultural cities around the world.

Before joining the LAI, Félicien de Heusch completed his PhD in Social and Political Sciences at the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM), University of Liège (Belgium) within the European Research Council (ERC)-funded project “Migration, Transnationalism and Social Protection in (post-) crisis Europe (MiTSoPro)”. His thesis “Mobilizing for and through the Dead: An Ethnography of Senegalese Migrants Transnational Death Management in Europe,” examines the transnational practices of social protection, including body repatriation and survivors’ pensions across Belgium, Spain and Senegal. He graduated with a double MA degree in Immigration Studies at the University of Liège and the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, and with a Bachelor Degree in Anthropology at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina.

See his publications here.