Lorena Suelves Ezquerro

Lorena Suelves Ezquerro (Ph.D. Anthropology) holds a degree in social work from the universities of Zaragoza (Spain) and Toulouse (France) and has worked for many years as a social worker and crisis responder with migrants who recently arrived in Spain. Based in Quebec since 2007, she has done her graduate studies in anthropology at Université Laval. Her doctoral research focused on the phenomenon of spousal sponsorship from an intersectional feminist perspective. She worked as a research professional at the Claire-Bonenfant Chair, Women-Knowledge and Societies (Chaire Claire-Bonenfant, Femmes-Savoirs et Sociétés) in collaboration with Professor Isabelle Auclair (Department of Management, Université Laval). She is beginning her postdoctoral fellowship with Professor Danièle Bélanger (Department of Geography, Université Laval) on the automation and digitalization of migration programs in Canada.

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.