Léa Coffineau

ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow

Léa Coffineau is a PhD candidate in cultural anthropology at the Graduate Center. Her dissertation project focuses on the notion of “colonial debt” – a debt owed by the colonizer to the colonized – and on its manifestation in the political discourse of young West African migrants who claim the status of unaccompanied minors in France. Léa is a 2025 ERI/PS2 Summer Public Research Fellow.