Victor Piché

Victor Piché is a sociologist-demographer specialized in the field of international migration. For the last ten years, he has been interested in the links between international migration and globalization, focusing on the rights of migrant workers. He has directed a study for UNESCO on the reasons why Canada refuses to ratify the UN Convention on the protection of the rights of migrants and members of their families.

He has carried out several surveys on migration in West Africa as well as in Quebec. Most of his research deals with the economic integration of migrants in Montreal as well as in major West African cities (Ouagadougou, Bamako and Dakar). He has recently completed a survey on remittances to Haiti of Haitians living in Montreal in collaboration with colleagues from York University (Toronto) who have carried out the same survey among Jamaicans. Finally, he was director of a Bill & Melinda Gates project which has developed a masters degree in population and health at the University of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso).

Victor Piché was professor in the Department of Demography at the University of Montreal from 1972 to 2006. He was also senior advisor on international migration and human rights for Action Canada for Population and Development (Ottawa).

He is presently working on three main projects: (1) a history of labor migration in West Africa, focusing on Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast (1900-2000); (2) an edited book on the foundations of migration theories; and (3) a special issue of the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies on the challenges of racial and ethnic categories.

E-mail : v-pic hotmail.com

Recent publications :

OUÉDRAOGO, Dieudonné et PICHÉ, Victor (eds) (2007), Dynamique migratoire, insertion urbaine et environnement au Burkina Faso : Au-delà de la houe, Paris et Ouagadougou, L’Harmattan et Presses universitaires de Ouagadougou. PICHÉ, Victor (2007), « Une politique canadienne discriminatoire », Relations, no. 720, oct.-nov.), p. 15-18.

PICHÉ, Victor, Eugénie PELLETIER & Dina EPALE (2008), “La Convention des Nations Unies sur les droits des travailleurs migrants: la situation au Canada », Hommes et migrations, no 1271, janvier – février, p. 66-81.

Piché, Victor (2008), « Les travailleurs migrants, nouveaux non-citoyens du monde », Possibles, vol. 32, no 3-4, p.41-51.

PICHÉ, Victor (2009), “Migrations internationales et droits de la personne : vers un nouveau paradigme?”, dans Crépeau, François. Nakache, Delphine et Atak, Idil (eds), Les migrations internationales contemporaines. Une dynamique complexe au cœur de la globalisation, Montréal, Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, p.350-369.

PICHÉ, Victor, Eugénie PELLETIER & Dina EPALE (2009), “Obstacles to ratification of the ICRMW in Canada”, dans De Guchteneire, Paul, Pecoud, Anbtoine & Cholewinski, Ryszard, (eds). Migration and Human Rights: The United Convention on Migrant Workers’ Rights, Cambridge University Press, Chapter 8.

PICHÉ, Victor (2011), “Catégories ethniques et linguistiques au Québec: quand compter est une question de survie”, Cahiers québécois de démographie, 40 (1): 139-154.

SIMON, Patrick et PICHÉ, Victor (2011), “Accounting for ethnic and racial diversity: the challenge of enumeration”, Ethnic and Racial Studies (on line). Piché, Victor, Kabbanji, Lama, Ouédraogo, Dieudonné & Cordell, Dennis (2012), « From Colonial to National and Multilateral Management of Migration : A Century of International Migration Between Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire », in Oucho, John O. (ed), Migration in the Service of African Development; A Book in honour of Professor Aderanti Adepoju. PICHÉ, Victor (forthcoming in 2012), “In and Out the Back Door”: Canada’s Temporary Workers Programs in a Global Perspective », in Geiger, M. & Pécoud, A. (eds) (2012), The New Politics of International Mobility : Migration Management and its Discontents, Osnabrück (Germany), University of Osnabrück Press, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies).

Two forthcoming books :

Lama Kabbanji, Dieudonné Ouédraogo & Victor Piché, Vers une régionalisation de la gestion des migrations internationales en Afrique de l’Ouest : la politique à l’épreuve des faits.

Patrick Simon, Victor Piché & Amélie Gagnon (eds), Social statistics and ethnic diversity: cross-national perspectives in classifications and identity politics, Amsterdam University Press .