J. Adam Perry, PhD

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Decades of neglect: Migrant farm worker housing needs national regulatory standards Canada’s ability to produce food hinges on hiring migrant agricultural workers. Yet, housing for these workers is often overcrowded, dangerous and undignified.

Happy to share my co-authored article in The Conversation calling for the need to introduce a National Housing Standard for Migrant Farm Workers. #RaiseTheBar #ToImmigrantsWithLove #migration #JusticeIsNotSeasonal. theconversation.com/decades-of-n...

“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”
― John Steinbeck

Chilling report from @caut.bsky.social on the U.S. administration’s targeting of Canadian researchers www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

Workers and Safety Culture: A Microhistory of the Public Service Commission of Halifax, 1945-1955 Daniel Englehutt and Peter L. Twohig[1] Introduction Westray. Ocean Ranger. Springhill. The names will resonate with many, important reminders of the dangers of working in the energy sector. Perhap…

On the blog today, Daniel Englehutt and Peter L. Twohig present a microhistory of workers, safety, and the Public Service Commission of Halifax: acadiensis.wordpress...

next Canadian government should think of boosting research funding up here and trying to grab as many American postdocs and researchers as possible

I think my department still uses these.

Happy to share some recent reflections on the possibilities of decolonizing higher education curriculum with international students, published in The Journal of International Students. Thank you to my RA Rachael Bethune for all your hard work and support. www.ojed.org/index.php/ji...

‘It’s a reward for good performance’: exploring the role of employer–employee relationships in Canada’s two-step economic immigration system This article is based on personal narrative-style interviews with various stakeholders connected to Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Programme and delves into the significant role employers play i...

I have a new article exploring the complex affective dynamics of employer/employee relationships in the context of Canada's 'two-step' immigration regime. Published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Thanks to my RA Leah Nicholson for all her support. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Frontiers | Experiences of precarious work within higher education institutions: a qualitative evidence synthesis IntroductionA qualitative evidence synthesis was employed, to identify and synthesize the best evidence on the experiences of precariously employed academics...

Excited to see that my research on harassment in the context of precarious work has been cited in a systematic review of precarious work in higher education: www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...

Sonic Rematriation: An Interview with Jeremy Dutcher This extended abstract from Acadiensis Vol. 53, No. 1 (Spring | printemps 2024) was translated into Wəlastəkwey by Elder Henrietta Black and transcribed by Jeremy Dutcher. Dutcher Forum Extended Ab…

Be sure to check out our recent post featuring an audio clip of the extended abstract of our interview with Polaris Prize winning musician Jeremy Dutcher, now with a tri-lingual PDF so you can follow along in the language of your choice: acadiensis.wordpress...

Check out the new issue of the Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education cjsae.library.dal.ca/cjsae

Congratulations Andy!

Thanks for making this @stfx-university.bsky.social start pack @lauraestill.bsky.social! go.bsky.app/L7yywto

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