Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care

Centre for Global Social Policy

Refereed publications

• Birdsell-Bauer, Louise and Cynthia Cranford. “The Community Dimensions of Union Renewal: Racialized and Caring Relations in Social Services.” Work, Employment and Society 31(2): 1-17.
• Chun, Jennifer Jihye. (2016). “Organizing across Racial Divides: Union Challenges to Precarious Work in Vancouver’s Health Care Sector” Progress in Development Studies 16(2): 1- 16.
• Chun, Jennifer Jihye and Rina Agarwala. (2016). “Global Labour Organizing in the Twenty First Century,” pp. 634-650. In Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment, eds. Steve Edgell, Heidi Gottfried and Edward Granter. London: SAGE.
• Engman Athena and Cynthia Cranford. (2016). “Habit and the body: Lessons for social theories of habit from the experiences of people with physical disabilities.” Sociological Theory (March 2016; 34 (1)).
• Cranford, Cynthia. (2014). “Towards Flexibility with Security for (Im)migrant Care Workers: A Comparative Analysis of Personal Home Care in Ontario and California.” Pp. 173- 191 in Migration and Care Labour: Theory, Policy and Politics, edited by Bridget Anderson and Isabel Shutes. Palgrave.
• Cranford, Cynthia. (2014). “Toward Particularism with Security: Immigration, Race and the Organization of Personal Support Services in Los Angeles.” Pp. 203-226 in When Care Work Goes Global: Locating the Social Relations of Domestic Work, edited by Mary Romero, Valerie Preston and Wenona Giles. Ashgate.

• Non- Refereed publications

5 clear language summaries of findings from the first stage of the Toronto and Los Angeles case studies organized around the theme “Flexibility or Security”:

• Flexibility and Insecurity in Los Angeles Private Sector
• Flexibility and Limited Security in Toronto Direct Funding
• Uneven Flexibility and Limited Security in Toronto Home Care
• Security with Limited Flexibility in Toronto Attendant Services
• Toward Flexibility with Security, Los Angeles Public Sector

• Cranford, Cynthia. (2013). “Towards Flexibility with Security: A Comparative Analysis of Personal Home Care Services.” Presentation at the Service Employees International Union, Local 1 Leadership Conference. Toronto, Ontario. Winter.

In Progress

• Cranford, Cynthia, Angela Hick and Louise Birdsell-Bauer. “The Dimensions of Social Unionism for Personal Care Workers.” Under Review.
• Cranford, Cynthia and Jennifer Jihye Chun. Forthcoming. “Immigrant Women and Home-based Elder Care in Oakland, California’s Chinatown.” In Gender, Migration and the Work of Care: A Multi-Scalar Approach to the Pacific Rim, edited by Sonya Michel and Ito Peng. Palgrave.
• Cranford, Cynthia. Flexibility Care, Secure Work: Intimate Labor in Los Angeles and Toronto. Book Manuscript.
• Chun, Jennifer Jihye and Cynthia Cranford. Forthcoming. “Becoming Homecare Workers: Chinese Immigrant Women in California’s Oakland Chinatown.” Care in Transition: The Global Migration of Gendered Care Work, edited by Jennifer Chun, Heidi Gottfried and Ito Peng.
• Chun, Jennifer Jihye and Yang-Sook Kim, “Organizing Domestic Workers in South Korea: Feminist and ethnic entanglements with nationalism and neoliberalism”
• Kim, Yang-sook. “The Micro Politics of Care: A Comparative Study of Co-ethnic and Local Women Workers in the Domestic and Long-term Care Market of South Korea. To be presented at the International Sociological Meetings in July.
• The Global Migration of Gendered Care Work, proposed edited book volume with Heidi Gottfried, Ito Peng and Jennifer Chun (in preparation).