Maud Laëthier is a researcher at the Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) and a member of the “Migration and Society” research unit (Urmis) and the UMR “Mobilities, Governance and Resources in the Mesoamerican Basin” (LMI meso).
Maud Laëthier’s research has focused on migration from Haiti, on social reconfigurations, identity constructions and forms of political mobilisation that mobilities induce both within the country and in certain migration areas (French Guiana, Surinam).
Her work also focuses on the history of Haitian anthropology as it relates to the construction of a “national identity” (as well as on the comparative study of Cuban and Haitian anthropologies). In Haiti, where she is developing projects in collaboration with the Laboratoire Langues, Discourses et Représentations (LADIREP) and the Faculty of Ethnology of the Université d’État d’Haïti, as well as teaching and student supervision activities (at the Faculty of Human Sciences, the École Normale Supérieure and then the Faculty of Ethnology), she is continuing her fieldwork, in particular in the locality of Kazal, where she is analysing the memories of the colonial past and of the Duvalier dictatorship.
Since 2019, she has also been leading the GRIP certified seminar “Contemporary research in anthropology: circulations in question(s)” with Julien Mallet.
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