Tessa is the Postdoc researcher in the project “Prototyping Welfare in Europe: Experiments in State and Society” and will explore welfare experiments in the UK context. Tessa received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Toronto, in a Joint Educational Placement with l’Université Paris 8. Her research focuses on the workings of the state and explores welfare interventions in Europe, including how these interventions imagine and shape collectivities.

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Tessa’s doctoral research examined the work of French associations (not-for-profit organisations) who shelter asylum seekers and resettle refugees on behalf of the French state. Her thesis—Outsourcing Crisis: Resettling Refugees and Sheltering Asylum Seekers in France—is an ethnographic inquiry into the fallouts of state-outsourced social work, demonstrating that state outsourcing “marketizes” and fragments non-governmental action, foreclosing possibilities for structural change.