Researcher, teacher in Political Sciences Institut
CNRS; the Institute for Political Studies in Paris (Scienes Po')

Riva Kasoryano is a researcher in the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Researches in France) and is a teacher in the Institute of Political Studies of Paris. She dedicated the most part of her researches to the themes of identity, minority, formiation of community and notably relations of these with States, including the situation of migrations in Europe and in the United States and the situation of minorities in Ottoman Empire and contemporary Turkey. She is the author of "La France, l’Allemagne et leurs Immigrés. Négocier l’identité" ("France, Germany and their Immigrants. To negotiate identity") (Paris, Armand Colin,1997) and she coordinated a collective work -"Quelle identité pour l’Europe ? Le multiculturalisme à l’épreuve" ("What identity for Europe? The multiculturalism in assay") (Paris, Presses of Sciences-Po,1998); "Nationalism in mutation in Oriental Mediterranean Sea" with Alain Dieckhoff (Paris, Presses of the CNRS, 2002).

Directeur d'ESCOM, Professeur d'Université
FMSH-ESCOM, INALCO

European law
Comparative politics
Demography
Political sociology