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Digital Geographies Conference TRS2 3.2.2 University of British Columbia Conference 2025-11-03 TRS2 3.2.2 Cartographies of Platform Labour in the Digital City conference TRS2 3.2.2 University of British Columbia Conference 2025-11-06 TRS2 3.2.2 13th Annual Pathways to Prosperity National Conference: Investing in Canada’s Shared Future—Pathways to Possibilities TRS2 3.2.2 University of British Columbia Conference 2025-11-24 TRS2 3.2.2 Exploring new forms of work and mobility TRS2 3.2.2 University of British Columbia Event 2025-10-25 TRS2 3.2.2 [x] Exploring new forms of work and mobility TRS2 3.2.2 University of British Columbia Event 2025-10-27 TRS2 3.2.2 Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference TRS2 3.2.2 University of British Columbia Conference 2025-08-28 TRS2 3.2.2 Uneven Development in the Platform Economy:The New Landscape of Transnational Social Protections TRS2 3.2.2 University of British Columbia Conference 2025-03-27 TRS2 3.2.2 Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists Conference TRS2 3.2.2 University of British Columbia Conference 2025-05-07 TRS2 3.2.2 2025 OSE Conference TRS2 3.2.2 University of British Columbia Conference 2025-08-15 TRS2 3.2.2 Exploring new configurations of work and mobility - Infographic Infographic collaboration with Sofi DonnerTRS2 3.2.2 University of British Columbia Research Output 2025-10-25 TRS2 3.2.2 Comics and Knowledge Mobilization in Migration Studies TRS2 3.2.2 University of British Columbia Event 2025-11-27 TRS2 3.2.2 Reflections on Canada’s first international student cap Brunner, L. R., & Cervantes-Macías, M. E. (2025). Reflections on Canada’s first international student cap. Critical Internationalization Studies Review, 4(1), article 2. https://doi.org/10.70531/2832-3211.1043TRS4 1.3.1 University of British Columbia Publication 2025-03-04 TRS4 1.3.1 Uneven development in the platform economy: Stratified immigration policies and uneven access to transnational social protections in North America How do digital platforms, such as Uber, Amazon, or DoorDash, reterritorialize social protections for immigrant workers at urban, national, and transnational scales? In this paper I show how they function as tools of economic integration, situating interplays between states, markets to generate new territorial configurations and exclusions in the digital economy.
By analyzing the role of immigrant workers in the platform economy, I aim to show how platform economies both enable and constrain transnational mobility, deepening global inequalities through the uneven impact of flexible labour mediated by digital infrastructures. I focus specifically on software engineers and gig workers, who perform what Vallas and Schor (2020) identify as “geographically tethered work”. These two migrant groups allow me to observe how platformization has reterritorialized labour relations. Providing an analysis of different immigrant workers in the North American platform economy, I aim to show the ways in which immigration status makes these labour relations more precarious, increasing the reliance on transnational infrastructures of care.TRS2 3.2.3 University of British Columbia Publication 2026-02-24 TRS2 3.2.3 Migrant Workers and the Ambiguities of Digitally Mediated Work in CanadA TRS2 3.2.3 University of British Columbia Publication 2026-04-01 TRS2 3.2.3 American Association of Geographers TRS2 3.2.3 University of British Columbia Conference 2026-03-19 TRS2 3.2.3 Digital Inequality: How Platforms Help and Hold Back Immigrant Workers in Canada TRS2 3.2.3 University of British Columbia Publication 2026-04-15 TRS2 3.2.3 Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers TRS2 3.2.3 University of British Columbia Conference 2026-03-07 TRS2 3.2.3 BD Scholar Exchange TRS2 3.2.3 University of British Columbia Activity 2026-01-18 TRS2 3.2.3