Anouk Malboeuf | Global Migration Processes

Anouk Malboeuf

Anouk Malboeuf

Anouk Malboeuf is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at Université Laval. She is interested in environmental and climatic mobility as well as the nexus between migration and development. Her research focuses on the rights and obligations of internal migrants in Madagascar, in a context of departure and arrival subject to environmental pressures. More specifically, she studies how the integration of migrants and social cohesion are linked to the norms, practices and principles that govern, among other things, the use of space. Her master’s degree, completed at the University of London, focused on the vulnerability and human trafficking of people displaced by hydroelectric projects in Laos. Outside of academia, the candidate has worked in environmental and science communication in Canada and in the development and education sectors in Africa and Asia for the past 18 years. Her doctoral work, supervised by Dr. Adèle Garnier, is being carried out with a grant from the Canada Research Chair on Global Migration Dynamics.

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.