Lama Kabbanji | Global Migration Processes

Lama Kabbanji

Lama Kabbanji

Lama Kabbanji is a researcher at IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement), based in Paris and attached to the Population and Development Center (CEPED). Her research focuses on migration policies and student and scientific mobility. She is co-leader of the ‘Migration, Power, Development’ axis of CEPED as well as the MobElites Observatory. Assigned to Lebanon from 2013 to 2017, she was interested in the economical and political issues of the governance of forced migrations from Syria, in the use of numbers in the implemented policies and in the routes of refugees from Syria to Lebanon. For more information, see: http://www.ceped.org/fr/membres/chercheurs-enseignants-chercheurs/article/kabbanji-lama.

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.