Wael Garnaoui holds a doctorate in Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology from the University of Paris, is a clinical psychologist, and holds a professional master's degree in clinical psychology from the University of Tunis, a research master's degree in psychoanalysis and interdisciplinarity from the University of Paris Diderot-7, and a master's degree in political science from Paris Dauphine University. Since January 2020, he has been a lecturer in sociology at the University of Le Havre Normandy. His research focuses on migration policies, border processes, and their impact on the political subjectivities of migrants from the Global South, particularly in the context of irregular Tunisian immigration. In particular, on November 18, 2021, he founded a network of researchers on "Border Studies" at the Anthropology Center of the University of Sousse, where he taught anthropology between 2016 and 2017. His doctoral thesis, defended in February 2021, is entitled: "Harga and the Desire for the West in the Time of Jihad: Borders and Migrant Subjectivities of Young Tunisians." He is currently continuing his research as a postdoctoral fellow at the French Institute of Geography (IFG), focusing on "Inequalities and Mobilities" at the MECAM (Metropolitan and Cultural Anthropology Center of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences).
