Emma Bouillard

Emma Bouillard is a researcher at CERC Migration, specializing in migration policy, qualitative research and research communication. As a member of the Link4Skills Horizon Europe project, she conducts research on labor migration and global skill mobility in collaboration with key stakeholders and international partners.

As part of the research dissemination team for the GAPs project, a multidisciplinary Horizon Europe consortium on coerced return migration, she led an international team to develop and publish the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) How States Coerce Migrants to Return: Comparative Perspectives.

She also worked on Trajectories of French Students in Canada, a project co-funded by the French Embassy in Canada, examining the transnational mobility of French students, with research outputs designed for policymakers.

Emma specializes in policy analysis and political narratives on migration, with an academic background in Global Development Studies, History, and Geography. She earned her Master’s from Queen’s University in 2023, where her thesis, Racism Reborn: Deportability and Unfree Mobility of Roma Migrants in France (2007–2016), explored the exclusion of Eastern European Roma migrants.

With several years of experience in public-facing and advocacy roles, including at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, Emma is passionate about supporting international students and immigrants, drawing from her own experience as a first-generation French immigrant in Canada.