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Charles-Olivier ³¢â€™H´Ç³¾³¾±ð

Charles-Olivier ³¢â€™H´Ç³¾³¾±ð

Concordia University

Visiting ³ÉÈË´óƬ

April – May 2026

Charles-Olivier ³¢â€™H´Ç³¾³¾±ð is currently a Doctoral Student at Concordia University and a member of the Institute of Research on Migration and Society ( (IRMS). He holds a dual MA from UQAM and Sciences Po Grenoble, where he specialized in International Relations and Middle Eastern and Mediterranean dynamics. His work focuses on the diplomatic instrumentalization of cross-border migrations.

Research focus while a Bridging Divides Scholar Exchange Fellow:

Charles-Olivier is continuing his research on the implications of border externalization agreements for diplomatic issue salience.

Using text-as-data methods, the project leverages medium-scale textual analysis of official communications to trace shifts in diplomatic attention over time, offering a novel empirical approach to the study of migration diplomacy. By quantitatively examining how the migration issue is framed and prioritized in the EU-Turkey bilateral relation, it captures the evolving dynamics of diplomatic agendas

More broadly, the project challenges the assumption that externalization reduces issue salience, showing instead how such agreements may reconfigure, and may even at times intensify, diplomatic attention to migration, particularly through strategic agenda-setting, and issue linkage.

This research situates itself within the growing subfield of migration diplomacy and highlights counterintuitive diplomatic dynamics.