Before moving to Lyon in 2014, she conducted research with renowned institutes such as the Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques and the Center for International Relations at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris. She was also a visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at University of Chicago. She holds a PhD in Modern History from Sciences Po in Paris, where her work on immigration policy was directed by Jean-François Sirinelli and Patrick Weil. She is the author of Culture et Immigration: De la question sociale à l’enjeu politique, 1958-2007 and Immigration et politiques culturelles.