Victor Piché | Global Migration Processes

Victor Piché

Victor Piché is a sociologist-demographer specialising in international migration with an interest in this phenomenon in the context of globalisation. He was a professor in Demography at the University of Montreal, Quebec, from June 1972 to October 2006. He also taught at various African and European universities. He was associate researcher for the Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in International Public Law, at McGill University, Quebec. For the past 15 years, he has specialised in the rights of migrants, more specifically, temporary migrant workers. His interests also include studying ethnic, racial, and linguistic statistics from a critical perspective. Victor has also been the main adviser in international migration and human rights for a Canadian NGO, Action Canada for Population and Development, Ottawa, Canada.

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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.