Thomas Martin works currently in Lille, France. He received a Master’s degree in Applied Anthropology from the Université Aix-Marseille in 2013 and has followed a study program in Sociology of associations. He has participated in planning ecotourism with the local community in Benin, of which he made an anthropologic study. He has worked for the association Carrefour des solidarités in Dunkirk, North France, close to persons living in poverty, where he made sociological research about their access to services.