Violaine Jolivet is a member of the CRACH (Collective for Research Action on Housing) and associate professor in urban geography at Université de Montréal. Her research focuses on questions of transnational mobility and its impact on socio-economic changes and spatial renovations in the central districts of American cities. She is also interested in processes of exclusion and segregation as encapsulated by concepts of right to the city, gentrification and territorial stigmatization, with a particular interest for the pericentral neighbourhoods, and inner suburbs of Montreal where minority groups are concentrated.