Éric Fassin (; born 1959) is a French sociologist.

Career

Fassin taught in the United States from 1989 to 1994, at

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and NYU. From 1994 to 2012, he was an ''agrégé'' professor of

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in the Department of Social Sciences at the

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. Fassin currently serves as a professor of sociology at the University of Paris 8 St-Denis. He is also a researcher at Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux sociaux.Éric Fassin « Ils ont renoncé aux euphémismes
8 4 2011 He also served as a contributing editor of ''

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'', a scholarly journal published by

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Research

Fassin's research focuses on contemporary sexual and racial politics in France and the United States and their intersections (in particular, concerning immigration issues in Europe) in a comparative perspective. He is author of ''L'inversion de la question homosexuelle'' (2005), ''Droit conjugal et unions de même sexe: mariage, partenariat et concubinage dans neuf pays européens'' (with Kees Waaldijk, 2008) and ''Le sexe politique: Genre et sexualité au miroir transatlantique'' (2009).

Publications

* ''Au-delà du pacs'' with Daniel Borrillo, published by

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in 1999. * ''Liberté, égalité, sexualités : Actualité politique des questions sexuelles'' with Clarisse Fabre, published by Belfond in 2004. * ''L'inversion de la question homosexuelle'' (''The Inversion of the Homosexual Question''), published by Éditions Amsterdam in 2005. * ''De la question sociale à la question raciale ?'' (From the Social Question to the Racial Question?) with Didier Fassin, published by

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in 2006. * He is currently working on ''The Rising Significance of Race in France'' for the

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, also with Didier Fassin. *

References

External links

Author profile from Public Culture

Profile from African American Policy Forum
1959 births Living people French sociologists Academic staff of the École Normale Supérieure French male writers {{France-academic-bio-stub