Nicolas Fischer Editor

Nicolas Fischer is a CNRS Research Fellow in Political Science at the Centre for Legal and Penal Institutions Sociology (CESDIP). His main research interest is the tension between violent repression and legal protection of stigmatized populations in democracies His recent research has dealt with immigration detention in France, issues of Human Rights within penal detention facilities, and the current litigation against judicial executions In the United States.

Florence Galmiche is an associate professor at the Université Paris Cité, a member of the Centre for Studies on China, Korea and Japan (EHESS-CNRS-UPCité), and a junior member of the Academic Institute of France (IUF). Her research in Anthropology focuses on Korea and is based on the contemporary practices of Buddhism and the relations between the living and the dead.

Milena Jakšić is a CNRS Research Fellow in Sociology at the Centre d’études des mouvements sociaux (EHESS, Paris). Several of her publications focus on human trafficking, migration, sex work, and child soldiers. Her most recent work develops an ethnography of the International Criminal Court and its practices of witnessing, justice, and international intervention. Her latest publication is Juger malgré tout. Ethnographie de la Cour pénale internationale (Judging Despite Everything: An Ethnography of the International Criminal Court, CNRS Éditions, 2026).

Carolina Kobelinsky is CNRS researcher fellow in Anthropology at the Laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology, University of Paris Nanterre. Her current research deals with the material and symbolic treatment of dead and disappeared border-crosser en route to Europe.