Véronique Tessier | Global Migration Processes

Véronique Tessier

As part of her Bachelor’s Degree, Véronique Tessier did an internship in Chile in 2018, where she documented the precarious housing conditions of Venezuelan migrant workers living in the city of Concepción. In 2019, she worked as a social worker for the Multi-Ethnic Centre of Quebec (CMQ). She assisted families of refugees and asylum seekers to facilitate children’s integration into school. Since the Fall of 2018, she has been a Master’s student in Geography, supervised by Danièle Bélanger, at Laval University, Quebec. Her Master’s thesis will focus on the trajectories of families of asylum seekers with children, who have crossed the Canadian-American border since 2018.

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.