Guillermo Candiz | Global Migration Processes

Guillermo Candiz

Guillermo Candiz

Guillermo Candiz is a post-doctoral candidate at the Université Laval Department of Geography. His main academic focus is on the migration processes in America and North Africa, and particularly on the migration paths of Central Americans to Mexico and sub-Saharan people to Morocco. He has also collaborated on various projects with Dr. Danièle Bélanger, from the Université Laval Department of Geography, and Dr. Tanya Basok, from the University of Windsor Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology. These projects have studied the migration projects and paths of irregular migrants, migrant regularization programs, transnational care flows, seasonal migration programs and the geopolitical issues of migration. He is pursuing his doctoral research with the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the Fonds de Recherche du Québec — Société et culture (FRQSC).

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.