Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care Centre for Global Social Policy

Women Moving the World Forward - Article featuring Ito Peng

2017 UN Commission on the Status of Women

For Love or Money?

Marriage Migration in South East Asia

“The stories seemed to tumble out of people…..”

Japan's Ageing Crisis

YOU GET TO KNOW ‘THE OTHER’ AND THEY’RE NOT ‘THE OTHER’ ANYMORE

This research and its dissemination is funded by

Together, we are investigating how the reorganization of care is influencing the international migration of care workers, and the impacts and consequences of these changes for gender equality, social development, and global governance.

Ito Peng, PHD & Director

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Child Health and Migrant Parents in South-East Asia: Wave II

International labour migration has become a part of livelihood strategies for millions of families across Asia, motivated partly by parents’ desire to improve life in the next generations. Yet relatively little research has been done on the impacts on children who stay behind when parents migrate for work. Our first study surveyed several members of […]

Sending Country Perspectives

What is happening in migrant caregivers’ home communities before, when, and after they leave to find paid work in wealthier countries?

International Organizations

Migrant caregivers’ needs arise not only as a result of their employment in low-paid, low-prestige, poorly regulated or unregulated care work.

Culture in the framing of care in Chinese societies

Culture in the framing of care in Chinese societies.

Our Projects

André Laliberté

Professor, University of Ottawa, School of Political Studies

Cynthia Cranford

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto

Deborah Brennan

Professor, University of New South Wales

Ito Peng

Professor of Sociology and Public Policy Director of Centre for Global Social Policy, University of Toronto

Monica Boyd

Canada Research Chair in Immigration, Inequality and Public Policy and Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto

Rachel Silvey

Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Rianne Mahon

CIGI Chair and Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University

Sonya Michel

(Project lead 2013-2015) Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Professor of History, University of Maryland

Caregiver work should be treated like a globally traded commodity: U of T Study

In a recent article published by University of Toronto’s Arts & Science News, Principal Investigator Dr. Ito Peng highlights the need to address economic, gender, and racial inequality within the contemporary care economy.

Call for Applications: 2018-2019 Postdoctoral Fellowships at the CGSP

Call for Proposals The Centre for Global Social Policy at the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto intends to appoint up to 3 one-year or 6 six-month Postdoctoral Research Fellow(s). Application Deadline: September 15, 2017 Job Description: The Postdoctoral Research Fellowship(s) will be funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, for research aligned with […]

From Janet with Love

From Janet with Love is an interactive photo essay written by Helene Klodawsky. It tells the story of Jennifer Haydock and her mother Janet, a pen-pal bride originally from the Philippines. The piece beautifully captures the value of care work and touches on a unique migration pathway to Canada. Principle investigator Ito Peng will be working […]

“Our imaginations are blank when it comes to care”

With these words, Helene Klodawsky a critically acclaimed filmmaker from Montreal, challenged us to ‘go beyond bland’ and embrace emotionally charged stories if we truly wish to spark audience interest in issues surrounding care. In her documentary series ‘Care Rebels,’ Helene profiles individuals who are challenging the invisibility and social undervaluation of care work to radically reshape […]

Care Work at the Venice Biennale

At this year’s 57th Venice Biennale, a spotlight shone on the work of care. ‘A World Without Borders’ was the theme of the Tunisian Pavilion at the exhibition. Fiona Williams, emeritus professor of social policy at the University of Leeds and partner collaborator for the GMC project was asked to write a short essay on migration for […]