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Keywords: socially engaged research, intersectionality, migrant movements, temporary labour migration, gender, care migration, migrant care workers, international students, race, critical discourse theory, ethnography, social policy
Ethel Tungohan is a 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. In 2023, she released two monographs: Containing Diversity: Canada and the Politics of Immigration in the 21st Century, co-authored with Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Christina Gabriel and published by the University of Toronto Press, and Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building and Communities of Care, published by the University of Illinois Press and winner of the 2014 National Women's Studies Association First Book Prize.
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Tolerated, threatening and celebrated: How Canadian news media frames temporary migrant workers York University Publication 2022-12-02 Transforming public policy with engaged scholarship:: better together York University Publication 2025-07-12 Leah Levac, Alana Cattapan, Tobin LeBlanc Haley, Laura Pin,
Tungohan, E. , Sarah Wiebe
Afterword: Beyond Knowledge, Power, and Migration University of Alberta, Concordia University, York University Publication 2025-04-07 Introduction: Knowledge, Power, and Migration: An Overview University of Alberta, Concordia University, York University Publication 2025-04-07 1 “Diversity Is Important, but Only When It Is the ‘Right’ Type of Diversity”: Canadian Political Science and the Limitations of an Additive Approach to Equity York University Publication 2024-06-20 Introduction York University Publication 2024-06-20 Tungohan, E. , Nisha Nath, Stephanie Paterson, Alana Cattapan, Fiona Macdonald
Book Review Symposium on Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Communities of Care, and Movement Building York University Publication 2024-03-01 Care Activism within Migrant Advocacy Organizations Chapter 2 delves into the specific tactics and goals of key organizations, analyzing their histories, their activities, and their normative visions. It analyzes the interviews that the author undertook with leaders and members of key organizations, most of whom provided oral life histories that prompted them to get involved in organizing work. It also discusses the tactics used by different groups to get their voices heard. It draws a contrast between organizations that deliberately take a more militant approach in which marching in rallies and being vocal in condemning the Canadian government and other stakeholders are commonplace; those that see negotiating with the government in a less confrontational manner as being more effective; and those that specifically call themselves “nonpolitical” by choosing deliberately to disengage from more visible spaces of advocacy (such as marching in the streets and considering the impacts of specific policy changes). The author shows how these organizations, while prioritizing care for migrant care workers as the crux of their advocacy work, nevertheless have different definitions of what such care looks like, and this in turn shapes their organizing strategies. York University Publication 2023-08-15 Toward a Politics of Critical Hope and Care The conclusion considers the future of care activism. Can there be a politics of critical hope in light of the persistence of global inequalities and structural disparities between Global North and Global South countries? It lays the foundation for arguing in favor of placing care and critical hope not only at the center of migrant care worker organizing but also in other progressive social movements. It also considers the importance of “shared fate” and why migrant care worker movements should work with other progressive movements, including the movement for Black lives and Indigenous movements, to realize social justice. York University Publication 2023-08-15
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