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Negotiating Colonial Encounters: (Un)Mapping the Policing of Indigenous Peoples' Protests in Canada
(2015-08-28)
This dissertation adopts an analytic concept of settler colonial pacification to examine shifts in the policing of Indigenous peoples’ protests in Ontario from the mid-1990s to 2013. Following the high-profile conflicts ...
The Social Organization of South Asian Immigrant Women's Mothering in Canada
(2016-09-20)
This research examines the social organization of newcomer South Asian womens mothering work. It explicates the processes that contribute to South Asian women making changes to their mothering work after immigrating to ...
Making it Work: A Study of the Decision-Making Processes of Personal Support Workers in Long-Term Residential Care
(2015-08-28)
This dissertation explores the decision-making processes of personal support workers (PSWs) in long-term residential care (LTRC). These workers are lowest in the LTRC labour hierarchy, performing the majority of "hands-on" ...
Indigenous Life Courses, Racialized Gendered Life Scripts, and Cultural Identities of Resistance and Resilience
(2016-09-20)
The aim of this research project was to understand the cultural identity of young Indigenous adults living between on-reserve, off-reserve rural settings, and the city. The secondary research question examined the gendered ...
Geopolitics, State-Formation and Economic Development in Quebec and Ontario
(2015-08-28)
This dissertation challenges the prevailing periodization of Quebec and Ontario’s economic development in Canadian historiography by contrasting the specificity of capitalist social relations with the non-capitalist forms ...
Invisible Worker(s), Invisible Hazards: An Examination of Psychological and Physical Safety Amongst Frontline Workers in Long-term Residential Care Facilities in the 'New' Global Economy
(2016-09-20)
Research has consistently demonstrated that the long-term residential care (LTRC) frontline workforce encounters a range of serious health and safety hazards and risks that result in physical and psychological injury, ...
Remaking the Nation-State: Multiculturalism, Neoliberalism, and Urban Revitalization
(2015-01-26)
My dissertation, Remaking the Nation-State: Multiculturalism, Neoliberalism, and Urban Revitalization, investigates the revitalization of two low-income housing projects in Toronto, Canada: Regent Park and Lawrence Heights. ...
Women's Experiences with Breastfeeding Support: Conflicting Practices and Discourses
(2017-07-27)
Drawing on insights from critical scholarship on medicalization and professionalization, this thesis explores women's experiences with breastfeeding support in the context of medical, institutional, health policy and ...
"Pagod, Dugot, Pawis (Exhaustion, Blood, and Sweat)": Transnational Practices of Care and Emotional Labour among Filipino Kin Networks
(2018-11-21)
While the global care chains literature presupposes that care work flows unidirectionally along a hierarchical chain from the Global South to the Global North (Hochschild 2000; Parreas 1998, 2000), this dissertation argues ...
Studying Abroad: Social Mobility or Social Reproduction? Examining the Strategies of Chinese International Students in Toronto
(2019-11-22)
Students around the world are increasingly mobile in their educational pursuits, with many moving out to move up. The Peoples Republic of China (PRC) is experiencing a studying abroad feverit is the worlds number one country ...