Local Food, Foreign Labour: A Multi-Sited Ethnography of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program in Nova Scotia, Mexico, and Jamaica
This project examines questions of social reproduction and livelihoods of Jamaican and Mexican seasonal agricultural workers in Nova Scotia.
Funding Partner: SSHRC Insight Grant (2019-2024)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Elizabeth Fitting
Co-Investigator: Dr. Catherine Bryan
Collaborators: Dr. Anne Galvin, and Dr. María de Lourdes Flores Morales
Research Assistants: Yessenia Alvarez Anaya, and Zoe Etni Castell Roldán
Mobilities and externalities in Nova Scotia’s local food movement
Using a multi-method, ethnographic approach, this project examines the costs of local food production with special attention on the international labour migration that sustains Nova Scotia’s agricultural sector.
Funding Partner: This project is funded and scientifically supervised by the Mobile Lives Forum, as part of its research program on the mobility transition. The Mobile Lives Forum is a research and prospective institute created by SNCF.
Co-Investigators: Dr. Catherine Bryan, Dr. Elizabeth Fitting, Dr. Karen Foster
The Right to Care: Refugee Claimants in Nova Scotia and Health Care Access in the Context of COVID-19
This project responds to a long-term equity issue faced by our partner organization, the Halifax Refugee Clinic (HRC), that has taken on new urgency due to COVID-19: that is, access to publicly-funded healthcare for Refugee Claimants and other migrants with precarious legal status who, since March 2020, have increasingly sought support from the Clinic.
Funder: SSHRC Partnership Engage
Co-Investigators: Dr. Catherine Bryan, Dr. Shiva Nourpanah, and Gillian Smith
Partner Organization: Halifax Refugee Clinic
Complicated Encounters: The Integration of Feminized Migrant Labour in Nova Scotia’s Seafood Processing Sector
This study focuses on TFWs (Temporary Foreign Workers) in Nova Scotia’s fish processing sector, with a focus on the social and relational dynamics generated through the encounter between local workers—those long-integrated in the sector, and their newly recruited migrant co-workers.
Funder: SSHRC Insight Development Grant
Co-Investigators: Dr.Catherine Bryan and Sadie Beaton
Navigating New Spaces: An Evaluation of ISANS' Youth Life Skills Support Program
The Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia (ISANS) has developed and implemented the Youth Life Skills Support Program (LSS), which aims to establish a groundwork for the well-being of refugee youth in Nova Scotia across a range of registers, remedying the traditional focus on refugee adults. Partnered with ISANS, this study takes LSS as its focus. This project will provide insight into the experiences of Government Assisted Refugee youth ages 15-25 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Co-investigators: Dr. Catherine Bryan, Serperi Sevgur, and Temitope Abiagom
Integration and Well-Being of Immigrants in Atlantic Canada
This research focuses on the well-being and integration of immigrants and refugees in Atlantic Canada.
Primary Investigator: Dr. Jonathan Amoyaw
COVID-19: Virtual programs and virtual community development: A social work researcher-practitioner partnership to evaluate the community-based virtual settlement service programs
Funder: SSHRC Partnership Engaged Grant (2020-2021)
Principal-Investigator: Dr. Haorui Wu
Co-Investigator: Ms. Vicky Li
Collaborator: Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House, Vancouver, British Columbia