Capucine Coustere | Global Migration Processes

Capucine Coustere

Capucine Coustere

Capucine Coustere is a doctoral candidate at the Université Laval Department of Sociology. Her research focuses the effects of unpredictable macrosocial events on migrants’ life course. She is interested in understanding how young migrants with a temporary resident permit and working in hospitality in Quebec are negotiating changes such as those produced by COVID19 and a migratory reform, and how it affects their life course. Before starting a PhD, she studied political sciences in France, worked in various organisations on the issue of gender equality and got a first-hand experience of being a temporary worker in hospitality in foreign countries.

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.