Faculty of Arts’ Research Websites

Immigrants and Precarious Employment
Latin American and Caribbean workers in the GTA

http://research.arts.yorku.ca/ine

This project examines the opportunities and obstacles encountered by recent immigrants and refugees in the new knowledge-based economy. We interviewed 300 Caribbean and Latin American workers in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) who arrived in Canada between 1990 and 2004. In our research we ask: How are newcomers affected by the wider trend towards precarious employment? What strategies do they implement on the job and as families to address employment challenges? How do migrants’ transnational commitments impact their relationship to local labour markets and social institutions?

Luin Goldring
Associate Professor of Sociology
York University
CERLAC, 240B York Lanes
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
Tel: (416) 736-2100 ext. 60311
Email: goldring@yorku.ca

Patricia Landolt
Centre for Urban & Community Studies
University of Toronto
455 Spadina Ave, Room 411
Toronto, ON. M5S 2G8
Tel (416) 978 1350
Email: landolt@utsc.utoronto.ca

Hello and Welcome to the Faculty of Arts’s Research Websites at York University. Here you’ll find a list of current research websites located within the Faculty of Arts. You’ll will find a brief introduction to each of the website s and most can be accessed from this page. The list will be continually updated. So visit often.