Katherine Pendakis | Global Migration Processes

Katherine Pendakis

Katherine Pendakis

Katherine Pendakis obtained her PhD in Sociology from York University, Toronto. She is a lecturer at Western University in the Department of Sociology (King’s University College) and at the Centre for Global Studies (Huron College). She has published on transnational political movements, diasporic memory, state surveillance practices and the intersection of class and gender on the everyday lives of migrant men and women. As an ethnographer, she has explored these themes in Canada, Vietnam and Greece. Her work has been published in Citizenship Studies, Identities: Global Studies in Power & Culture and Surveillance & Society. Katherine’s current project is an ethnography of the developing refugee regime in Thessaloniki, Greece, and the solidarity activities that have emerged to challenge it.

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.