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Featured News
Class of 2020: Inclusive Post-Secondary Education students graduate after an enriching university experience
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In the news
In the News: Naomi Lightman, Sociology, in Toronto.com
Ottawa will give this family permanent resident visas. It just won’t let them into Canada
In the News: Naomi Lightman, Sociology, in ICI Radio Canada
Crise du logement à Toronto : le surpeuplement touche 3 fois plus les locataires racisés
In the News: Michael Adorjan, Sociology, Global News Radio
The Morning News Podcast speaks with a Professor of Sociology from the University of Calgary on whether COVID-19 restrictions based on ‘personal responsibility’ go far enough – or if government mandated restrictions are required.
In the News: Naomi Lightman, Sociology, in Toronto Star
Three times more racialized renters live in overcrowded housing in Toronto than non-racialized renters — and the starkest gap is among those born in Canada, study says
Featured publications
In the News: JSTOR
Banerjee, Pallavi., Chacko, Soulit., & Piya, Bhumika. (2020). Paradoxes of Being and Becoming South Asian Single Mothers: The Enclave Economy, Patriarchy, and Migration
In the News: Sociological Spectrum
Ghosh, S., & Godley, J. (2020). Voices of domestic workers in Calcutta
In the News: Social Politics
Lightman, Naomi. (2020). "Comparing Care Regimes: Worker Characteristics and Wage Penalties in the Global Care Chain.” Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society.
In the News: Springer
Brainer, Amy, Mignon Moore, and Pallavi Banerjee. (2020) “Race and ethnicity in the lives of sexual minority parents and their children: Perspectives from North America and Beyond.” in LGBT-Parent Families: Innovations in Research and Implications for P
COVID-19 Research
From research on mental health and families to the economy and the animal world, Faculty of Arts researchers are at the forefront of seeking to understand the effects of COVID-19.