Camille Schmoll

Visiting Toronto Metropolitan University

Fall 2026

Research focus while a Global Migration Institute Scholar

During her time at the Global Migration Institute, Camille will continue to advance her research on the moral geography of migration, a line of inquiry that has been central to her work for several years. She also looks forward to further developing and refining her research on the more-than-human dimensions of migration, an emerging line of inquiry in her work. Finally, she intends to make substantial progress on a co-authored manuscript with her colleague Catherine Lejeune, which examines the reception of Ukrainian migrants across a selection of rural settings in France.

Career Achievements

Camille Schmoll is a social geographer whose research focuses on international migration, gender, and space. She was Associate Professor of Geography at Université Paris Cité (2007–2020) and a Junior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France (2015–2020). Since 2021, she has served as Directrice d'études (Full Professor) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris). She is also a Fellow of the Institut Convergences Migrations and Associate Director of the EHESS Academic Press (Éditions de l'EHESS). She served as scientific curator of the permanent exhibition at the Musée National de l'Histoire de l'Immigration (National Museum of the History of Immigration, Paris).

Her research spans international migration, urban approaches to migration, cosmopolitanism and borders, gender, generation, and family in migration processes, as well as ethnographic approaches to migration. More recently, she has developed research on the moral geographies of mobility and migration. She also promotes linguistic reflexivity within migration studies, advocating for multilingual research practices and the use of multiple languages in scholarly publication and communication. Her most recent book is entitled Chacun sa place. Une géographie morale des mobilités (CNRS Éditions). Her previous monograph, Women and Borders in the Mediterranean: The Wretched of the Sea (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), has been translated into five languages.

Relevant Publications

Gemenne F., Schmoll, C., Simon P., Thiollet, H. (eds)  (2026) Que sait-on des migrations ?,  Presses de Sciences Po, Paris, forthcoming

Schmoll, C. (2025). Chacun sa place. Une géographie morale des mobilités. CNRS.

Schmoll, C. (2025). Linguistic hegemony, marginalization, and migration scholarship. A view from the Francophone world. In Pott, A. and Dahinden J. (eds) Reflexivities and Knowledge Production in Migration Studies: Pitfalls and Alternatives (pp. 153-168). Imiscoe/Springer.

Jamid, H., & Schmoll, C. (2025). The Uneven Geographies of Knowledge in Migration Scholarship. Geographische Zeitschrift, 113(4), 236-258.

Thiollet, H., Pastore, F., & Schmoll, C. (2024). Does the forced/voluntary dichotomy really influence migration governance?. In Handbook of Human Mobility and Migration (pp. 221-241). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Schmoll, C. (2024). Women and Borders in the Mediterranean: The Wretched of the sea. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Lejeune, C., Pagès-El Karoui, D., Schmoll, C., & Thiollet, H. (2021). Migration, urbanity and cosmopolitanism in a globalized world: An introduction. In Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World (pp. 1-13). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Dubucs, H., Pfirsch, T., Recchi, E., & Schmoll, C. (2017). Je suis un Italien de Paris: Italian migrants’ incorporation in a European capital city. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43(4), 578-595.

Schmoll, C., Semi, G. (2013). Shadow circuits: urban spaces and mobilities across the Mediterranean. Identities, 20(4), 377-392.

Kraler, A., Kofman, E., Kohli, M., & Schmoll, C. (Eds.). (2011). Gender, generations and the family in international migration. Amsterdam University Press.