Charles Fleury | Global Migration Processes

Charles Fleury

Charles Fleury, PhD in Sociology, is an associate professor in Industrial Relations at Laval University, Quebec, academic director of the Quebec Inter-University Centre for Social Statistics (QICSS – Laval), and member of the executive committee of the Poverty and Social Exclusion Research Center (CEPE). He specialises in social statistics, and his research interests include mobility and migration, socio-professional insertion, the life course, and the relation to work. He is responsible for the project, “Beyond Exile: Refugees’ Life Course in Quebec from 1980 to Today” (SSHRC – Insight Development), and is co-researcher on the projects “Mobilities and Migratory Trajectories in Canada”, led by Danièle Bélanger (SSHRC – Insight Development), and “Beyond Irregular Entry: Pathways of Migration and Socio-professional Insertion of Asylum Seekers in Quebec” (SSHRC – Insight Development), led by Aline Lechaume. Charles has been collaborating with the Research Chair in Global Migration Processes since its creation and he co-supervises students with Danièle Bélanger.

Photographic contribution

Michel Huneault is a documentary photographer and visual artist. Before devoting himself entirely to photography starting in 2008, he worked for more than ten years in international development. He holds an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a Rotary Peace Fellow, focusing on the role of collective memory in the aftermath of large-scale trauma. First in Berkeley and then in New York, he was a student and assistant to photographer Gilles Peress of the Magnum agency. Today, Michel Huneault is still interested in development, trauma, migration and other complex geographic realities, including the impacts of climate change. In 2016, he was awarded the Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship to continue his research on migration issues. In 2018, ROXHAM, his visual and sound project on the passage of asylum seekers from the United States to Canada was adapted into virtual reality by the National Film Board of Canada.