Eléonore Thibeault | Global Migration Processes

Eléonore Thibeault

Éléonore Thibeault, master’s degree in Geographic Sciences

Eléonore Thibeault holds a bachelor’s degree in geography at Université Laval and a master’s degree in Geographic Sciences under the direction of professors Danièle Bélanger and Adèle Garnier. Her interest in migration issues stems from her work in a community organization offering homework support to young people, including migrants, in Quebec City.

Her dissertation is part of the Chair research project in partnership with Carrefour Emploi Lotbinière. It studies the family experience of temporary migrants in Quebec and analyzes these experiences in the territorial context of the Lotbinière region. The originality of this research project is to approach temporary workers not only as a source of labor, but as people belonging to a family in order to better understand the challenges related to family migration under temporary immigrant status in the region.

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.