Perla Serfaty-Garzon 's academic career as a professor at the Université de Strasbourg in France includes positions as visiting professor in the United States, Canada and Sweden and as guest lecturer in universities in Europe as well as in North and South America. Her training is in sociology, social psychology and philosophy. She presently lives and works as a writer, an essayist and a journalist in Montreal, Canada. She conducts her research in the fields of environmental psychology and urban sociology. Her recent research and publications are more particularly devoted to the notion and experience of home and home territories, home as a place for the self, appropriation of the home, loss of home and exile from home, home and the experience of aging. Her books are published in Paris by Armand Colin and Bayard Éditions as well as in Montréal by Bayard Canada. Perla Serfaty-Garzon lectures in Europe and North America and conducts consultancy work for government agencies and private companies. She writes expert papers for the general public media and gives radio and TV interviews.