A sociology of education in a camp context at the gates of the European Union ; Une sociologie de l'éducation en contexte de camp aux portes de l'Union européenne : à l'école des outsiders
Since the worsening of the Syrian conflict and the fall of the Libyan regime, the multiplication of migrant camps at the gates of the European Union has become a reality. They are often invisible, as in the Balkans, sometimes covered by the media, as in Calais in France, but also and above all regularly exploited, as on the Aegean islands in Greece. They are in fact consecrating a "Fortress Europe" whose hotspot approach has become the cornerstone. Since then, the States of the European Union have been implementing increasingly sophisticated strategies to avoid including children in the camps in a formal school programme, and educational dynamics are coming to life within the camps. The function of education in emergency situations is then overturned, as it becomes a tool for survival rather than for post-crisis or post-conflict redevelopment. Beyond a reflection on the mechanisms leading to the development of schools in the camps, this thesis proposes a confrontation of the reciprocal influences maintained by these two objects and analyses their consequences on the daily life of migrants. It makes a contribution to the field of migration sociology by describing the production of social relationships that lastingly and profoundly modify the structure of the camps. Until now, apart from the fact that literature on education in camp contexts has been scarce, it has mainly come from UN agencies. Consequently, it focused on practical, child-focused aspects, learning modalities and psychosocial support techniques. In fact, little thought was given to the reason for the existence of an educational complex within the camp, its importance for the students' families or its contribution to the migratory journey of adults, sometimes without children. In order to remedy this, this work draws on the Chicago School's interactionist literature to go beyond the framework of the school's traditional target audience of children and focus on all its users. Finally, the three years of investigation in France, Greece, Italy, ...