Carolina Kobelinsky is an anthropologist, CNRS research fellow and member of the Laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology at Paris-Nanterre University. After having worked on the treatment of asylum seekers in France, based on an ethnography of waiting in asylum reception centres and a study on judgement practices at the National Court for Right of Asylum, Carolina Kobelinsky’s current research concerns deaths at the borders of Europe. She investigates the future of these “foreign” deaths, often “unknown”, as well as the the imaginations of death of those who cross the border. Using an ethnographic approach, Carolina Kobelinksy studies the management of bodies found at the Southern borders of Europe (Spain, Italy) and explores accounts of death at the border from migrants preparing or having already succeeded at crossing the border. In doing so, the study proposes a reflection on the violence of the contemporary regime of borders and rethinks the meaning of migration as a death risk.
