Karina Piser’s research explored measures to promote French secularism in public high schools in immigrant-heavy areas. Beginning in suburbs of Paris, she interviewed students, teachers, administrators, and education-policy practitioners to better understand how the government is targeting schools to improve social cohesion in the aftermath of the 2015 and 2016 terrorist attacks. Prior to receiving the ICWA fellowship, Karina was an editor at World Politics Review, and has previously held positions at the Council on Foreign Relations, the European Council on Foreign Relations, and the U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights in Tunis, Tunisia. She holds a master’s degree from Sciences Po Paris, and has written for Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, and World Politics Review, among other publications.
Migration tests French values
At a trial of migrant-rights activists on the French-Italian border.
Secularism complicates French feminism in the #MeToo era
The conversation has fallen prey to tired tropes about who and what represents women’s liberation.
Macron’s historic decision to recognize Algerian War atrocities
But will it lead to a real reckoning with the colonial past?
Summer, scandal and day-to-day pluralism in Paris
A stroll through the city’s 11th arrondissement.
Does an ‘ultra-right’ vigilante group reflect the French national mood?
Reaction to a terrorist threat may be another example of the right-wing wave sweeping Europe.