Sonia Chabane is a doctoral candidate at REPI (Research and Studies in International Politics) and a teaching assistant in the Department of Political Science at ULB. Between 2023 and 2025, she was a Global Fellow at Brown University’s Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies. She has now joined the coordination group of JUSTES (JUSTice Ecologique et Sociale), an interdisciplinary research group at the FNRS working on social and ecological justice.

In previous years, Sonia gained experience working on issues related to the professional worlds of humanitarian aid, regional cooperation in civil protection and crisis management, and forced international mobility, mainly in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Morocco. Her doctoral project examines how networks of experts in Europe are organising the “ecological transformation” of the humanitarian sector, particularly in the southern Mediterranean region. Her areas of interest include: humanitarian governance and its transformations (labour, ecology, and technology); crisis management in the southern Mediterranean, the Mashreq, and the Gulf; EU-Middle East relations, particularly humanitarian, development cooperation, migration, and border policies; and issues related to expertise, North-South power relations, and decolonial perspectives.

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Contact : sonia.chabane@ulb.be