Vanessa Castejon is an Associate Professor at University Paris 13. Her work explores Aboriginal political claims, self-determination and sovereignty, and the image of Aboriginal people in France/Europe. Her recent publications include an article on her ego-histoire, ‘Identity and Identification: Aboriginality from the Spanish Civil War to the French Ghettos’ in Passionate Histories: Myth, memory and Indigenous Australia, (Aboriginal History/ANU E Press, 2010), edited by Frances Peters-Little, Ann Curthoys and John Docker. Her book, Les Aborigènes et l'apartheid politique australien, was published by Harmattan in 2005.