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Ethel Tungohan

Ethel Tungohan

York University Collaborating Academic Partner
EducationPhD, University of Toronto
Areas of ExpertiseSocial movements, temporary labour migration and migrant work, migrant care work, social reproduction, transnational families, transnational feminism, socially-engaged research

 

Ethel Tungohan is the Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts and Activism and an Associate Professor of Politics at York University. Her work looks at temporary labour migration policies, migrant justice movements, and everyday practices of citizenship using critical ethnography, mixed methods, participatory action research and socially engaged research methodologies, as well as critical discourse analysis and Intersectionality Policy Analysis. 

Her latest Social Sciences and Humanities Research (SSHRC)-funded project examines the experiences of immigrant and migrant direct care workers’ transitioning to post-COVID societies and economies, in partnership with migrant justice and care worker advocacy organizations in Ontario and in Alberta.

 

Selected Publications

Abu-Laban, Y., Paquet, M., & Tungohan, E. (Eds). (2025).  McGill-Queen's University Press.

Tungohan, E. (2024). . Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50(2), 301–318.

Tungohan, E., & Garcia, M. (2023). . In S. Ahmed & L. Smith (Eds.), Diaspora Engagement in the Digital Age (pp. 144–162). Routledge.

 

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