Cécile Lefèvre | Global Migration Processes

Cécile Lefèvre

Cécile Lefèvre is a professor of Sociology and Demography and a researcher for the Cerlis Laboratory at the University of Paris Descartes, France. She is also an associate researcher at the French National Institute of Demographic Studies. Her research focuses on the relation between the evolution of policies and systems related to social protection, demographic dynamics, and intergenerational relations in post-Soviet countries, France, Europe, and, recently, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS). Migration is an obvious component of these transformations: How does migration modify demographic evolution and inter-generational solidarity? What policies address it? How does migration compel us to rethink the issue of social rights in the context of globalisation?

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.