Mamadou Oury Sow | Global Migration Processes

Mamadou Oury Sow

Mamadou Oury Sow, PhD

Mamadou Oury Sow has a PhD in sociology, obtained at the Université Laval under the direction of Charles Fleury (sociology department) and Danièle Bélanger (geography department). His work focuses on the economic integration of immigrants in Canada, analyzed from the perspective of quality of employment. He is particularly interested in the relationship between migration experience and quality of employment for immigrants in Canada, from a longitudinal perspective. As part of his research contract for the use of Statistics Canada microdata, he has often participated in conferences organized by the Quebec inter-University Centre for Social Statistics (QICSS) and the Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN).

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.