Apolline Foedit is a PhD student in International History and Politics and a research assistant at the Centre on Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding at the Geneva Graduate Institute. She holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Geneva and an MA in Development Studies from the Geneva Graduate Institute, where she specialized in development, human rights, and social movements. Her doctoral research examines the emergence and transformation of associations advocating for the right to asylum, particularly in the context of the Europeanization of migration policies, the tightening of borders in the EU and Switzerland, and the institutionalization of some of these organizations.