Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky is an anthropologist and clinical psychologist. A professor of South Asian anthropology at INALCO and a senior member of the Institut universitaire de France, she is director of the Institut Convergences Migrations (CNRS) and president of the Primo Levi Centre, which is dedicated to the care and support of victims of torture and political violence.

Her work focuses on migration, exile, violence, and the psychological and social recovery processes of displaced people. For many years, she has been conducting research at the intersection of anthropology, psychology and migration studies. Since 2010, she has been engaged in clinical practice with asylum seekers at the psychotraumatology clinic at Avicenne Hospital in Bobigny.

Her research is based on fieldwork conducted in India, Brazil and France. She lived for several years in India and Brazil, where she was also a visiting professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of São Paulo. She has led several research programmes, notably on social exclusion in major cities of the Global South and on language mediation in migration contexts.

The author of around ten academic works published in French, English and Portuguese, she has notably edited or published research on the links between trauma, language, violence and exile. Her recent works include La voix de ceux qui crient. Encounters with Asylum Seekers (Albin Michel, 2018), Violence and Narrative: Speaking, Translating and Conveying Genocide and Exile (Hermann, 2020) and Lingua (non) grata:  Languages, Violence and Resistance in Migration Contexts (Presses de l’Inalco, 2022) and, more recently, Family Reunification (L'Aube, 2026), a book exploring contemporary experiences of hospitality towards exiles.