Félicien de Heusch is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, as part of the ERC-funded project "The Social Life of Dead Bodies: A New Ethnographic Approach to Migrant Death in and around the Mediterranean Sea (SOLID)", under the supervision of Anja Simonsen. He was also awarded a FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Department of Sociology (MIGLOBA/CRESC), University of Antwerp, for his project “Survivors’ Pensions Protecting Transnational Families in Senegal”, under the supervision of. Milena Belloni. In 2025, Félicien de Heusch was awarded a FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Department of Sociology (MIGLOBA/CRESC), University of Antwerp, for his project “Survivors’ Pensions Protecting Transnational Families in Senegal”, under the supervision of Prof. Milena Belloni. He is also a Scientific Associate at the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM), University of Liège (Belgium).
Before that, Félicien de Heusch was granted a Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Latin American Institute (LAI) at the Univeristy of California (UCLA). He completed his PhD in Social and Political Sciences at the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM), University of Liège (Belgium) within the European Research Council (ERC)-funded project “Migration, Transnationalism and Social Protection in (post-) crisis Europe (MiTSoPro)”. His thesis “Mobilizing for and through the Dead: An Ethnography of Senegalese Migrants Transnational Death Management in Europe,” examines the transnational practices of social protection, including body repatriation and survivors’ pensions across Belgium, Spain and Senegal.
He graduated with a double MA degree in Immigration Studies at the University of Liège and the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, and with a Bachelor's Degree in Anthropology at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. His research interests include: transnationalism, social protection, death, street vending, social movements, Senegalese, Haitian, and Mexican migration. He conducted fieldwork in Argentina, Brazil, the United States, Senegal, Spain and Belgium.
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Deparment of Anthropology
Research Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Department of Sociology (MIGLOBA/CRESC)
Research Institute, Antwerp, Belgium
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Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies, ULiège
Research Institute, Liege, Belgium
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