Marcus Fraga | Global Migration Processes

Marcus Fraga

Marcus Fraga is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Laval University, Quebec. He is interested in data analysis applied to the study of international migration. His Doctoral thesis proposes a comparative analysis of the economic integration of immigrants, primarily refugees, in Canada and Sweden. His Master’s thesis, completed while studying demography at the University of Montreal, Quebec, is an original longitudinal study comparing the fecundity of different categories of immigrants in Canada. Marcus is also involved in various research projects in collaboration with Danièle Bélanger in the Department of Geography at Laval University, Quebec, and Charles Fleury in the Department of Industrial Relations at Laval University, Quebec. These projects focus on immigrants and temporary workers’ trajectories and socioeconomic integration in Canada. Finally, Marcus keeps an eye on communication policies and Latin American politics.

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.