Thesis supervisor: Corinne Delmas
This thesis project, at the crossroads of sociology, anthropology, and law, proposes to study the emotional bonds between parents and children and what it means to be a family when a child is placed in institutional care. The originality of this project lies in its approach to institutional placement by focusing on emotions. To this end, several research tools and methods of analysis will be used, including an analysis of the legal provisions governing placement and the maintenance of family ties, as well as an ethnographic study, based on observations and interviews, in several facilities managed by Apprentis d'Auteuil. Within this framework, the doctoral student will aim to answer several questions that will inform this research: How do children placed in institutions view their emotional relationship with their parents? How do they identify this affection in relation to their representations of what constitutes a family? How is this parental and emotional bond governed by law since the recent amendments? In what ways does this parental bond manifest itself? Finally, what place is really left for this emotional bond by the institution and social actors?
Year of enrollment: 2023
Doctoral school: Organizations, Markets, Institutions – OMI