Dr. Catherine Bryan, PhD
Associate Professor
Email: catherine.bryan@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-1356
Fax: 902-494-6709
Mailing Address:
School of Social Work
果酱视频 University
Suite 3242, Mona Campbell Building,
1459 LeMarchant Street
PO Box 15000 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2
Research Topics:- Labour Migration and Immigration
- Transnational livelihoods
- Economy, work and development
- Rural communities
- Feminist political economy
- Social reproduction
Current Research
- [principle investigator]聽"Complicated Encounters: The Integration of Feminized Migrant Labour in Nova Scotia鈥檚 Fish Processing Sector"聽(SSHRC Insight Development Grant).听
- [co-principle investigator]聽"Mobilities and Externalities in Nova Scotia鈥檚 Local Food Movement"聽(Mobile Lives Forum) ().听
- 摆肠辞-颈苍惫别蝉迟颈驳补迟辞谤闭听"Local Food, Foreign Labour: A Multi-sited ethnography of the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program in Nova Scotia, Mexico, and Jamaica"聽(SSHRC Insight Grant)聽
- 摆肠辞-颈苍惫别蝉迟颈驳补迟辞谤闭听"Fast food, Slow Migration: Canada's Temporary Workers at Home in the Philippines"(SSHRC Insight Grant)
- Dr. Bryan is also the current co-chair and 果酱视频 Lead for the Nova Scotia Immigration Roundtable, and the co-organizer of the 果酱视频 Feminist Seminar Series.聽
Publications
- Bryan, C. (2019). Labour, population, and precarity: temporary foreign workers transition to permanent residency in rural Manitoba.聽Studies in Political Economy,聽100(3), 252-269.
- Bryan, C. (2019). Mothers and Work: Social Reproduction and the Labours of Motherhood, in L. O鈥 Brien Hallstein, A. O鈥橰eilly & M. Vandenbeld Giles (Ed.) (pp. 331-342).听The Routledge Companion to Motherhood.New York: Routledge.聽
- Bryan, C. (2019). Rural Mobilities: Migrant Workers in Manitoba.聽Journal for the Anthropology of North America, 22(2), 79-81.
- Bryan, C. (2018). 鈥淲ait and while you Wait, Work: On the Reproduction of Precarious Labour in Liminal Spaces鈥. In W. Lem & P. G. Barber (eds.)聽Migration, Temporality, and Capitalism: Entangled Mobilities across Global Spaces聽(pp.123-140). London: Palgrave Macmillan.聽
- Bryan, C. (2017). Understanding Service Work as Reproductive Labour: A Feminist Political Economy of Filipino Migrant Hotel Workers in Rural Manitoba. In G. Bonifacio (ed.)聽Gender, Feminism and Global Cross-cultural Connections: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives聽(pp. 141-154). Castle Hill, AUS: Emerald Press.聽
- Barber, P. G. & Bryan, C. (2017). IOM in the Field: 鈥淲alking the Talk鈥 of Global Migration Management.Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies聽(special issue on the International Organization for Migration).听
- Bryan, C. (2014). Multiplying mothers: Migration and the work of mothering. In M. Vandenbeld Giles (Ed.),Mothering in a neoliberal age (pp.35-50). Bradford, ON: Demeter Press.聽
- Barber, P. G. & Bryan, C. (2014). 鈥淰alue Plus Plus鈥 Housewifization and History in Philippine Care Migration. (Republished in) M. Romero, V. Preston & W. Giles (eds.), When聽Care Work Goes Global: Locating the Relations of Domestic Work, (pp. 29-44). Farnham, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited.聽
- Denov, M. & Bryan, C. (2014). Social Navigation and the Resettlement Experiences of Separated Children in Canada.聽Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, 30(1). 25-34.
- Dobrowolsky, A., Bryan, C. & Barber, P. G. (2014). Choices, Calculations and Commitments that Help to Create a Home Away from Home. In E. Tastsoglou & B. Cottrell (Eds.),聽The Warmth of Welcome: Is Atlantic Canada a Home Away from Home for Immigrants. Sydney: University of Cape Breton Press.聽
- Bryan, C. (2012). Gendered Returns, Ambivalent Transnationals: Situating Transnationalism in Local Asymmetry.聽Anthropologica,聽54(1). 133-142.
- Barber, P. G. & Bryan, C. (2012). "Value Plus Plus:" Housewifization and History in Philippine Care Migration. In P. G. Barber & W. Lem (eds.),聽Twenty-First Century Migration: Political Economy and Ethnography聽(pp. 86-116). New York: Routledge.
- Denov, M. & Bryan, C. (2012). Tactical Manoeuvring and Calculated Risks: Independent Child Migrants and the Complex Terrain of Flight.聽New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development: Special Issue on Independent Child Migrants.听13-27.
- Bryan, C. & Denov, M. (2011). Separated Children in Canada and the Construction of Risk Identity.聽Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies. 9(3). 242-266.聽
- Denov, M. & Bryan, C. (2010). Unaccompanied Refugee Children in Canada: Experiences of Flight and Resettlement.聽Canadian Social Work: Special Issue on the Settlement and Integration of Newcomers to Canada.聽12(1). 67-75.
Teaching
Dr. Bryan teaches in both the BSW and MSW program in the areas of theory, policy, and research, and she is cross-appointed to the Gender & Women's Studies Program and the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology.聽