Eugénie Depatie-Pelletier

Eugénie Depatie-Pelletier has a Master’s Degree in Demography and a PhD in Law from the University of Montreal, Quebec. She specialises in immigration law, labour migration programs and (im)migrants’ fundamental rights, and is an adjunct professor at the Université Laval’s Department of Geography . She has published dozens of articles, book chapters, and research reports on the impact of migration policies on migrant workers – for academic purposes as well as for non-profit organisations, the Canadian and the Chinese governments, and different branch commissions of the UN. She currently work as Director of research at the Association for the Rights of Household and Farm Workers, a non-profit organisation founded in 1975 promoting the rights of people working in their employer’s household. Eugénie coordinates and contributes to various research projects, including a comparative study of the impact of closed and open work permits on the exercise of fundamental rights.

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.