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Capucine Coustere

Postdoctoral research fellow, Institute for Research on Migration and Society, Concordia University

Dr. Coustere is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Research on Migration and Society at Concordia University (Montreal), and an expert in temporary migration in Quebec/Canada. In her postdoctoral research, she examines the effect of sociotechnological arrangements on work practices, based on the case of immigration lawyers’ interaction with the immigration data processing infrastructure. Funded by the Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Société et Culture (FRQSC), her thesis in sociology (Université Laval) focused on the trajectories of young migrants benefiting from both facilitated temporary migration and potential access to permanent settlement within the precarious framework of their temporary residence status. Using a qualitative longitudinal perspective and a life course approach, her research explores how the negotiation of this temporary-permanent mobility regime affects the life course of temporary migrants with work experience in the hospitality sector in the city of Quebec. Dr. Coustere also contributed to research projects on temporary migrants in Canada from diverse angles: francophones outside of Quebec, international students, international students’ partners, and hospitality workers. Finally, she holds an MA in political science from the Institut d’études politiques of Strasbourg (France), where she specialized in gender equality and counteracting discrimination.