Caroline Taïeb

Caroline Taïeb is a doctoral student in sociology at EHESS and Kansai University in Japan. She is attached to the Equipe de recherche sur les inégalités sociales (ERIS) of the Centre Maurice Halbwachs (EHESS/ENS/CNRS) and to the Centre de recherches sur le Japon (CRJ) of EHESS. Her work focuses on the issue of racism in Japan, and more specifically on the state of discrimination against burakumin. She holds a master’s degree in European Studies from the University of Paris III and a master’s 2 in Japanese Studies from the University of Paris VII, and was a Japanese government scholarship holder from 2012 to 2014 and from 2015 to 2017. As part of her doctoral thesis, she conducted a qualitative and quantitative survey of non-burakumin in the city of Amagasaki and semi-structured interviews with around a hundred burakumin in several buraku across the country. In April 2017, she was a prizewinner in the 8/9 Hautes Études competition on the theme of “Law and Society”.