Zaman, Habiba
Dr. Habiba Zaman is Professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Simon Fraser University. Her areas of research interest include Immigrants, settlement and work in Canada; Global south and social justice movements; Gender and development; Globalization and labour mobility; Race, gender and class; South Asia. She has published extensively in international journals.
Research Interests: Immigrants and settlement in Canada, Global south and social justice movements, Labour mobility, and Race, gender and class
Listing Details
| Institution: | Simon Fraser University |
| Fields of Expertise: | Canadian Politics Cultural Diversity, Integration and Multiculturalism Ethnicity, Racism, and Xenophobia Gender Politics and Policy Migration |
| Research groups: | Migration/Citizenship/Borders |
| Email: | hzaman@sfu.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English |
| Publications: | 2012 Asian Immigrants in “Two Canadas”: Racialization, Marginalization, and Deregulated Work. Halifax & Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 127 pages. 2013 South Asian Skilled Immigrants in Greater Vancouver: Formal and Informal Sources of Support and Settlement, second author Syeda Nayab Bukhari (PhD Candidate GSWS), Metropolis British Columbia, Centre of Excellent for Research on Immigrants and Diversity (online publication), 55 pages. 2019 Migration of Bengalis to Canada: History, Settlement, Identity, and Activism. (Principal editor), Alternate Routes, Vol. 30 (1), 169 pages. 2012 “Labouring Practices: Canada”, Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures. Brill USA online Reference Works, General Editor: Suad Joseph, 5,168 Words (Invited). 2011 “The Political Economy of Asian Immigrant Labour in Canada: Intersections of Race, Gender and Class, pp. 361-375, in Reconsidering Social Identification Race, Gender, Class and Caste. Abdul R. Janmohamed (Ed.). New Delhi: Routledge. 2010 “Racialization and Marginalization of Immigrants: A New Wave of Xenophobia in Canada” (Invited), Labour/Le Travail, Vol. 66 (November), pp. 163-182 (Invited). |
