 In parallel, he launched a research project on borders and boundaries in an attempt to articulate the issues around immigration and racialization, which were at the time dealt with in separate fields.In 2008, Fassin received an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council for his program Towards a Critical Moral Anthropology.To reappraise theoretical issues in the analysis of morals and moralities, he started an ethnographic research on police, justice and prison in France.