Chowra Makaremi is a tenured researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. Her research focuses on issues of security, migration control, the anthropology of law and the state, and processes of subjectivation at the margins. She completed a PhD in Anthropology at the Université de Montréal in 2010 based on an ethnography of border confinement for undocumented migrants in France. Her current research on delinquency courts in France reflects on the everyday experience of justice, policies of delinquency repression, punishment, and the moral economy of adjudication. She teaches at the University Paris Est-Créteil and is the author of Le cahier d’Azi: Au cœur de la révolution iranienne (2011).