Inès Tedjini is a Franco-Algerian researcher who was born and raised in Parisian
suburbs as the second generation of immigrant. Her areas of interest include
migration, racial discrimination, semiotic representation, International Human
Rights, French Secularism and Islamophobia, Middle East and North African
politics, decoloniality and the pursuit of international justice in post-conflict
societies.
More recently, she has investigated biopower treatment (semiotic and political) of
refugees’ bodies through the prism of Genocide during the 2015 refugee crisis showing
how semiotic representations of migrants’ bodies creating an ‘outgroup’ led to
exacerbated European migration policies’ violences.
Having the deep conviction that perceptions are the major influence of national
policies and especially of international crisis policies in the current context of
rising Western populism, she believes art and culture become major assets to
avoid humans crisis in the long run as they allow to change mainstream
stereotypical perceptions. Based on this observation, she developed a
humanitarian photographic project of counter-narration in the Parisian refugee
camps. The aim was to give back agency to the exiles, their memories, and the
tragedy of their everyday life. If emergency actions promoted by humanitarian

associations and international organizations are indispensable, she is also
convinced that long-term work is necessary for the appeasement of international
humanitarian crises in an increasingly hostile context.
She holds BA in History and Sociology (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), an MA in
International Relations and Politics (Queen Mary) and an MA in Art and Politics
(Goldsmiths).
As a 9-5, Tedjini is the co-founder of an events-based entertainment company
operating in France, SOL-R.