Ethel Tungohan

Ethel Tungohan is the Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts and Activism and an Associate Professor of Politics at York University. Her work looks at temporary labour migration policies, migrant justice movements, and everyday practices of citizenship using critical ethnography, mixed methods, participatory action research and socially engaged research methodologies, as well as critical discourse analysis and Intersectionality Policy Analysis. 

Her latest Social Sciences and Humanities Research (SSHRC)-funded project examines the experiences of immigrant and migrant direct care workers’ transitioning to post-COVID societies and economies, in partnership with migrant justice and care worker advocacy organizations in Ontario and in Alberta.