Research
IRMS explores the multiple dimensions of migration and integration, focusing on how individual trajectories, work and digital technologies intersect. Our research combines socio-political, economic, and technological analyses to understand how migrants navigate society and the labour market and how digital technologies affect the migration journey.
Research themes
IRMS research spans a wide range of issues in migration and integration. Our themes evolve with the work of our researchers and partners. Among others, our areas of focus include:
Migration Pathways
Exploring migrants’ journeys from temporary to permanent residency, and how policies shape settlement, labour market integration, and belonging.
Projects
- Cartograpohie des voies de professionnalisation de musiciens immigrants au QC (Marie-Jeanne Blain)
- Pathways into and out of irregularity for precarious status migrants in Canada (Mylène Coderre)
- L'insertion professionnelle du personnel enseignant d'origine immigrante et de minorités visibles vue par les directions d'écoles francophones (Gwénaëlle André)
- Digital Platform Modernization and Transformation at IRCC (Mireille Paquet, Capucine Coustere)
Key themes
- Migration pathways and policy
- Temporary to permanent residency transitions
- Labour market integration
- Precarity and settlement
Contact
- Capucine Coustere, Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: capucine.coustere@concordia.ca - Mylène Coderre, Senior Researcher
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Email: mylene.coderre@concordia.ca
- Marie-Jeanne Blain – Senior Researcher
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Email: mariejeanne.blain@concordia.ca
Labour, Technology & the Platform Economy
Examining how digital platforms and technologies reshape migrant labour in urban economies and across sectors such as agriculture, logistics, and trucking.
Projects
- Recruiting temporary foreign workers in a digital era (Mylène Coderre)
- CLIMPACT: Impacts of extreme climate change events on temporary agricultural workers in Québec – a mixed method, community-based participatory action-research (Mylène Coderre)
- Les interventions en santé et sécurité au travail auprès des travailleurs étrangers temporaires (Mylène Coderre)
- Les conditions de travail et d'hébergement des travailleuses et travailleurs étrangers temporaires dans le secteur agroalimentaire (Mylène Coderre)
- Liberating Migrant Labour?: International Mobility Programs in Settler-Colonial Contexts (Capucine Coustere)
- PARtenariat sur les migrants Temporaires en EMPloi (PARTEMP) (Capucine Coustere)
- Navigating Streets, Restaurants, and Algorithms: A Study of Young Immigrant Food Delivery Couriers in Montréal and Toronto (Émile Baril)
- Technologies, working conditions and South Asian migration in the Canadian long-haul truck driving industry (Émile Baril)
- Firewalls In Sanctuary Cities: Examining Access To Public Services With(Out) Fear In Toronto And Montreal, Canada (Émile Baril)
Key themes
- Migrant labour
- Urban precarity
- Migration policy and regulation
- Technology and work
Contact
- Émile Baril, Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: emile.baril@concordia.ca
Immigration and Digital Literacy
Investigating how immigrants engage with digital technologies across social, cultural, educational, and political spheres, with attention to minority-language contexts.
Projects
- Expérience d’accès aux services et à l’accompagnement juridiques de migrant·e·s sans statut ou à statut précaire au Québec : une recherche-action exploratoire (Marie-Jeanne Blain)
- Outils numériques et recherche d'emploi pour demandeurs d'asile (Marie-Jeanne Blain)
- Digital Platform Modernization and Transformation at IRCC (Capucine Coustere)
- Impacts of Social Media Disinformation on Civic Engagement Among Newcomers After the 45th Canadian Federal Election (Gwénaëlle André)
Key themes
- Digital literacy and inclusion
- Immigration and education
- Minority language contexts
- Technology and integration
Contact
- Gwénaëlle André, Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: gwenaelle.andre@concordia.ca
