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My new article with Ashley Nickels, Brooke Moeller, Emeline Renz, & Miles Davis-Matthews in @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social explores how nonprofit developers navigate narratives of gentrification in a changing mid-size city (Grand Rapids, MI). Check it out here…

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🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky

Achieving #GenderEquality at work means sharing care responsibilities: between women & men, families & the State. 🌍💼

We need strong care policies, quality services & real investment in the care economy.

Let’s work together for a more caring world of work.

🔗 www.ilo.org/globalcare/

Our Fall 2025 LUC program is for professionals who are driving change in housing, transportation, or land use and advancing projects that intersect w/ policy, planning, development, infrastructure, community wellbeing. Learn more on July 23, 12 p.m. ET schoolofcities.utoro...

"What does a narrative of support for racial capitalism look like in contemporary political economies, where racism denial is pervasive in political discourse, and trust in authorities are at an all-time low?"
Read @docdantzler.bsky.social's new open access piece journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Ontario Care Policy Scorecard - Ontario Nonprofit Network ONN works within four broad policy areas: our sector’s people (the paid and volunteer work force), our financing, our regulatory environment, and our data. We also work on special projects, advocacy, ...

@theonn.ca has launched the Ontario Care #Policy Scorecard, a tool that will be used to assess the policies that shape Ontario's #CareEconomy. The evaluation is expected to be completed by next year. Check it out! theonn.ca/topics/onn-p...

#Postdoc opportunity! Socio-Political Impacts of AI-Driven Battery Materials Discovery.

Deadline to apply: July 15

www.utsc.utoronto.ca/research/pos...

2026 Work and Family Researchers Network Conference - Work and Family Researchers Network ABOUT THE EVENT Work and Family Researchers Network next conference will be June 17-20, 2026 at Concordia University in Montreal Canada.  The WFRN will host preconference events on June 17, including ...

🚨CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The 2026 Work and Family Researchers Network Conference is seeking paper, poster & session proposals for their 8th conference, happening June 2026 at @concordiau.bsky.social

Theme: Centering Care Across the Life Course

Deadline: Oct 1 2025

wfrn.org/2026-work-an...

YouTube video by Centre for Global Social Policy Melissa Milkie on More or Less: Behind the Stats

CGSP affiliate faculty @melissamilkie.bsky.social on BBC's More or Less, addressing the popular claim that "today’s working mothers spend more time with their children than your stereotypical 1950s housewife did." She gives context for understanding the entire picture.

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A group of youth in India at night with arms around each other's shoulders, smiling for the camera. Image credit: Sanket Mishra, Unsplash.

In recent #OpenAcess article, CGSP's Kriti Sharma and Ito Peng examine the personal and structural factors shaping the aspirations and capabilities of Punjabi youth to study and settle in Canada.

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Today is intl domestic workers day -mostly migrant workers who subsidize gendered labour in the home, while separated from own family

While all eyes are on US, Canada has perfected migrant labour exploitation, much of it invisible

But today, migrant care workers are occupying immigration building!

ILO Conference recognizes urgent need to formalize care work The 113th session of the International Labour Conference (ILC) in Geneva has concluded with the adoption of new language recognizing care and support workers as among the groups most at risk of inform...

🚨 Big win for care workers at the #ILC2025 !

New ILO conclusions recognize care & support workers as among the most at risk of informal, insecure jobs.

Governments must act now to formalize care work & protect workers' rights. #CareCantWait

New article from CGSP affiliate @leafiaye.bsky.social, writing with Hui Zheng, investigates the causes of stagnation and decline in economic, social, & health outcomes among U.S.-born Asian Americans cgsp-cpsm.ca/article/u-s-...

New chapter by CGSP affiliate faculty @docdantzler.bsky.social & @dnpetti.bsky.social, along w/@mmaroto.bsky.social, is accessible overview of inequality in Canada, and how social policy can create winners and losers based on ppl's access to various forms of support

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New chapter !

Social Inequalities

@docdantzler.bsky.social @mmaroto.bsky.social

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In The Oxford Handbook of Social Policy in Canada edited by Béland, Mahon, & Smith

"While there may be folks who continue to be critical of DEI campaigns because they think brands bought into being “woke” (and now are paying a price for it), many more are eager for greater and better representation."

CGSP affiliate @dnpetti.bsky.social on DEI in the fashion industry

Spots still available for "Creating the Conditions of Care" on Monday May 5 - register today!

Zoom registration: utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

In-person registration: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

#CareEconomies #CareWork

Getting ready to kickoff this years CHRA Conference in Saskatoon as the keynote speaker…

See the trailer here: youtu.be/N5CENoYhjIs?...

@uoftsociology.bsky.social @uoftcities.bsky.social @uoftbrn.bsky.social @cgsp-cpsm.bsky.social @dukesocialeq.bsky.social

May 5th Event | Join us in person or online!

In her talk "Creating the Conditions of Care," Dr. Pat Armstrong will go deep into the relationship between care workers, care quality, and working conditions in care settings.

Register today: cgsp-cpsm.ca/2025/03/21/j...

Updates from CGSP affiliate @docdantzler.bsky.social include an upcoming research talk with @wolf-powers.bsky.social, a recent report exposing racism in Toronto's rental market, and more!
#Housing #SocialPolicy #HousingJustice

The Housing Justice Lab, a SofC affiliated initiative led by @docdantzler.bsky.social, has published an investigation of anti-Black #discrimination in T.O.'s rental market, revealing systemic barriers that restrict #housing opportunities for Black tenants: www.housingjusticelab.org/toronto-rent...

Webinar | April 26
UN Women-UNICEF Side Event: "Transforming urban care systems"
Join experts, policymakers, & urban planners in examining the intersection of urban development and the #CareEconomy
unwomen.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Headshot of Dr. Pat Armstrong. Text says "Care economies in context speaker series. Creating the conditions for care. presentation by Dr Pat Armstrong, distinguished research professor emeritus at York Univesrity. May 5, 2:00 - 3:30pm. Hybrid event."

What kind of working conditions in #hospitals, #HomeCare, & #LongTermCare can make care work not only feasible, but rewarding?

On May 5, join CGSP as we host Dr. Pat Armstrong for "Creating the Conditions of Care."

Register today to attend in-person or online! cgsp-cpsm.ca/2025/03/21/j...

Great opportunity - deadline to apply is April 16!

"As Canadians prepare to head to the polls, we should all consider the future we want to see for ourselves and our communities as we age. Making strategic investments to improve the quality of life for older Canadians today will also lay the foundation for future generations."
#CareEconomies #Care

White text on pink background says: In ethnocultural long-term care homes, care and activity programs can be a medium of cultural inheritance. Through recreation programs, residents share and transfer memories, histories, and cultural practices to others, including staff, volunteers, students, and family members. Izumi Niki describes this as a process of “co-constructing our knowledge as community members.” Ethnocultural long-term care homes in Canada: a place for cultural inheritance and community building. Izumi Niki, 2023.

White text on pink background says "Izumi Niki is both a researcher and a recreation worker in an ethnocultural long-term care home in the Toronto suburbs. In this autoethnography, Izumi writes about her experiences as an immigrant frontline careworker."

White text on pink background says "“Through daily activities and special events, we [staff, volunteers and students] learn [residents’] history and reconstruct them as part of collective memory,” writes Izumi. But COVID-19 interrupted how “we inherit our ethnic and cultural knowledge, and [how we] build community by sharing collective memories in a segregated and closed institutional setting.”"

White text on pink background says: "Izumi concludes that “Care is not only ‘provided’ by the worker to the resident, but part of mutually dependent and reciprocal relations.” She recommends that “what constitutes the value and meaning of care work, including recreational work and how to evaluate its contribution, should be critically examined.”"

In ethnocultural #LongTermCare homes, recreation programs are more than just fun & games - they're a medium of cultural inheritance.

In this #autoethnography, researcher & careworker Izumi Niki writes about the vital role of recreation in care.

Full article: cgsp-cpsm.ca/article/ethn...

YouTube video by International Labour Organization Decent Work in the Care Economy

It's also a great day to amplify this #ILO video on the 5Rs framework. We can make life better for all by:
Recognizing, Reducing, and Redistributing unpaid care work + Rewarding and Representing paid care work.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LX5...

Act – Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence Supporting Family Caregivers and Care Providers

Today is #NationalCaregiversDay- a great day to sign on to the #ActOnCare campaign and help advance a #NationalCaregivingStrategy in Canada!

canadiancaregiving.org/act/

Cover of CCCE's federal election toolkit. The background image features a person caring for a smiling child who uses a mobility device. Text overlay says "2025 federal election. join us in making caregiving a national priority."

Photo of Ron, a person who provided care to his father for 10+ years. Ron looks at the camera with a serious expression. Text says "caregivers are often forgotten. we overcommit, neglect our own needs, and face burnout."

Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence is making it easy to ensure that #care becomes a key issue in the upcoming #FederalElection.

Be sure to:

🧰 check out their election toolkit canadiancaregiving.org/wp-content/u...

📨 add your name to their Act On Care campaign canadiancaregiving.org/act/_

Report provides clear directives to institutions & policymakers:
💲 Increase wages and benefits
🏥 Reduce short-staffing
🦺 Implement minimum violence prevention policies
🤝Improve conditions for immigrant and non-immigrant workers alike.
✊Protect/ expand union membership & collective bargaining.