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.

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.

BD Funded Projects

• Citizenship and Belonging in a Globalised and Digitalised World (TRS4 1.1)
• Birthing Canadian citizens: Migrant mothers’ experiences accessing documentation and citizenship for children born in Canada and abroad (TRS4 1.4)
• Dominant and Alternative Narratives on Immigration in Canada - Narratives of Racism and Anti-Racism Mobilization (TRS4 3.1.2)

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