Capucine Coustere

Capucine Coustere has been a postdoctoral researcher at IRMS since fall 2024, affiliated with the Bridging Divides project and an associate member of CELAT. She holds a PhD in sociology (Laval University, 2024) and a master's degree in political science (Institut d'Études Politiques de Strasbourg, 2014). Her research focuses on migration governance and its effects on migrants’ trajectories and decision-making, especially privileged and young migrants.  

At IRMS, she pursues a SSHRC-funded research on the institutional infrastructure that links France and Quebec to facilitate mobilities from one territory to the other. She also examines how the digital platform used by the federal immigration department affects migration governance from the perspective of immigration lawyers. More broadly, her work addresses the effect of migration status on the experiences of migrants (transition to permanent residence, work, studies, family, etc.) in Quebec and Canada. Finally, with the Planche la recherche collective, she is pursuing a project on the alliances between comics and social sciences.

Selected Publications

• Coustere, C. (2026). Contradicting processes of migranticization and citizenisation: Analyzing the extent of nationality privilege in the context of French migration in Quebec, Canada. Journal of Ethnic and Migration, 1-20. 
• Coustere, C., Bélanger, D., Fleury, C. (2025). Federalised two-step migration in Quebec: An ambiguous process of inclusion, Canadian Journal of Policial Science/Revue Canadienne de science politique, 58(1), 171-195.
• Coustere, C., Bélanger, D., Fleury, C. (2025). Reaching the waiting room: An analysis of migrants’ compliance process with Quebec’s two-step permanent residency program. Journal of International Migration and Integration.
• Coustere, C., Brunner, L., Shokirova, T., Karki, K., Valizadeh, N. (2023) International Students as Labour: Experiencing the Global Imaginary. Higher Education, 88, 321-338.

For full list of publications, visit Capucine's website.

Teaching activities

Teacher of record

• 2025: Migrations Internationales, Undergraduate (with Bélanger, D.), Dpartement of Geography, Université Laval.

Teaching assistant

• 2021-2024: Feminist summer school, Graduate, Department of sociology, Université Laval
• 2021: Méthodes du travail intellectuel en sciences sociales (Intellectual work in social sciences), Undergraduates, Department of sociology, Université Laval
• 2019-2020: Laboratoire de recherche sociologique (Laboratory of sociological research) (undergraduate), Department of sociology, Université Laval

Guest lecturer (selection)

• 2026: Comprendre les transformations du régime canadien-québécois d'immigration : le cas de l'expérience de transition de la résidence temporaire à la résidence permanente au Canada, Gradute, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)
• 2025: Mieux comprendre le public des cours de francisation : profils, politiques et enjeux au Québec, Didactique du français (accueil et immersion), Undergraduate, Université Laval