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, Anthropologist and Sociologist, he works on policies pertaining to children, adoption, gender and sexuality, and the anthropology of morals and ethics. He conducted research in Thailand (on sex tourism), France (on juvenile delinquency), and Ethiopia (on transnational adoption). As PI of the grant ANR ETHOPOL, he leads a team of social scientists working on the government of intimacy and emotions, Author Biographies Se´bastien Roux is a CNRS researcher at the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Solidarite´s, Socie´te´s, Territoires (LISST) in Toulouse (France)

A. , Vozari is a doctoral student in the Social Sciences at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research on Social Issues (Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux Sociaux, IRIS, UMR 8156), School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences