About the author
Xavier Houdoy is member of the South Asia Program and the founder of the Cartographic department at Noria.
A PhD candidate at the French Institute of Geopolitics, University of Paris 8, Xavier Houdoy deals with contemporary state logics and dynamics in India’s North-East.
His research focuses on the State-building process still ongoing in the region, alternatively embodied by security policies and development initiatives, and its multiple impacts on a territory that figures as a “space of resistance”.Affiliated to the Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH) in New Delhi from September 2013 to September 2015, he has conducted extensive fieldwork in New Delhi and throughout several North-East states.
He holds a PhD in Geography. Based in Amman, Jordan, where he joined the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) in 2009, he also works as an associate researcher at Gremmo (Lyon). His research focuses on cross-border flows of goods and persons in the spatial organization of the Middle East region. He studies how migrant populations (workers, refugees, smugglers, fighters…) circulate, the inner dynamics of the spaces hence produced, as well as the deriving regional integration processes.
