Many studies have shown that a growing proportion of Canadians have jobs that are unstable and insecure and that marginalized groups disproportionately work within sectors of flexible and precarious forms of work. Current income and [...]
Nov 162012
Social Inequality
Nov 162012
This session explores the ways in which constructions of and practices of violence uphold dominant power relations in western nation-states. The role of structural and everyday violence in managing and naturalizing geographical, ideological and identity [...]
Nov 162012
This session will host papers on social inequality and politics based on quantitative research. We encourage a comparative focus, although papers focusing on Canada are also welcome. Stratification research that concerns public opinion, social mobility, [...]
Nov 162012
In recent years, 10 year plans to end homelessness promoting a housing first philosophy have surged in communities across the United States and Canada. This session invites papers from all disciplines that present empirical findings, [...]
Nov 162012
Global migration flows have transformed national and local immigration patterns. Over the last decade the number of people with precarious legal status living and working in Canada has grown exponentially. Canada’s authorized temporary migrant population [...]