Ongoing PhD dissertation (since October 2020): The matrix of black people's vulnerability to disease: the case of HIV/AIDS in Île-de-France and Occitanie
Abstract
My doctoral project (sociology) examines the vulnerabilities to HIV infection and viral hepatitides of people considered black in France (Hexagone), those with the "shared social experience according to the socially negative marker of black skin, without implying common cultural ties or institutional recognition" (Ndiaye, 2009, p. 65). My dissertation thus seeks to describe and analyze the materiality of racialization as black in the French context and its influence on the driving factors of HIV transmission. The hypotheses guiding our research articulate two dimensions for a comprehensive and cross-cutting approach:
Struggles and resistance in sexual and reproductive health and rights and reproductive rights