Kathryn Barber | Global Migration Processes

Kathryn Barber

Kathryn Barber

Kathryn Barber is a post-doctoral researcher at Laval University in the Department of Geography. She works with professors Danièle Bélanger and Adèle Garnier’s team analyzing the use of AI in immigration. Her work uses a science and technology perspective to examine the development of social statistical techniques and their uses in nation-building and the governance of migration. Her recent publications include a special issue of Canadian Ethnic Studies, co-edited with Willem Maas, examining local integration in small cities and rural areas. Previously, she has held positions as a post-doctoral researcher in political science at Glendon campus (York University), assistant professor in sociology at the University of Toronto Scarborough and Lecturer in sociology at Brandon University.

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.