Élodie Benoit | Global Migration Processes

Élodie Benoit

Élodie Benoit

Élodie Benoit is doing a master’s degree in geography on adaptation strategies implemented by or for women affected by environmental migration in Saint-Louis, Senegal. Her research topic is in continuation with her bachelor’s degree project, which drew up a portrait of family migration strategies in the context of environmental change in West Africa, and more specifically in Senegal. Following on from this project, her master’s research will address some of the blind spots found in the literature.

Her master’s research is supervised by Dr. Adèle Garnier

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.