Aline Lechaume | Global Migration Processes

Aline Lechaume

Aline Lechaume holds a PhD in Cultural and Social Geography from the Paris-Sorbonne University, France, and Laval University, Quebec. She has been a research-professor in Industrial Relations at Laval University, Quebec, since 2018. Previously, she was a researcher at the Quebec provincial Ministry of Work, Employment and Social Solidarity (MTESS) and the Poverty and Social Exclusion Research Center (CEPE). For 20 years, she has been interested in migrants’ socio-professional insertion pathways, in addition to public policies and programmes on migration, employment, poverty, and social exclusion. She leads the research project “Beyond Irregular Entry: Pathways of Migration and Socio-professional Insertion of Asylum Seekers in Quebec” (SSHRC – Insight Development). Aline is a co-researcher on the project, “Beyond Exile: Refugees’ Life Course in Quebec from 1980 to Today”, led by Charles Fleury (SSHRC – Insight Development), and she collaborates on the project, led by Danièle Bélanger, “Mobilities and Migratory Trajectories in Canada” (SSHRC – Insight Development). Aline is a member of the Research Chair on Integration and Management of Diversities in Employment (CRIDE), the Research Team in Partnership on Cultural Diversity and Immigration in the Region of Québec (ÉDIQ), and the Research Network Chair on Youth (CRJ). She has collaborated with the Research Chair in Global Migration Processes since its creation and co-supervises students with Danièle Bélanger and Charles Fleury.

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.