Catherine Bryan, PhD
Catherine Bryan is an anthropologist and assistant professor at Dalhousie University's School of Social Work. Her work focuses primarily on social reproduction, migration, and livelihoods through the lens of feminist political economy. More precisely, she draws on qualitative and ethnographic methods to explore the historic, transnational, and relational origins of migration pathways connecting precarious labour markets in rural Canada to the Philippines, Mexico, and Jamaica. She has published on transnational mothering, hospitality as commodified care, and histories of Filipino care labour migration. Catherine teaches in the areas of social policy, social theory, and research.
Contact: c.bryan@dal.ca
Selected publications:
2019. Labour, population, and precarity: temporary foreign workers transition to permanent residency in rural Manitoba. Studies in Political Economy, 100(3), 252-269.
2019. “Mothers and Work: Social Reproduction and the Labours of Motherhood” in L. O’ Brien Hallstein, A. O’Reilly & M. Vandenbeld Giles (Ed.) (pp. 331-342). The Routledge Companion to Motherhood. New York: Routledge.
2019. Rural Mobilities: Migrant Workers in Manitoba. Journal for the Anthropology of North America, 22(2), 79-81.
2018. “Wait and while you Wait, Work: On the Reproduction of Precarious Labour in Liminal Spaces” in W. Lem & P. G. Barber (eds.) Migration, Temporality, and Capitalism: Entangled Mobilities across Global Spaces (pp.123-140). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
2017. “Understanding Service Work as Reproductive Labour: A Feminist Political Economy of Filipino Migrant Hotel Workers in Rural Manitoba” in G. Bonifacio (ed.) Gender, Feminism and Global Cross-cultural Connections: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 141-154). Castle Hill, AUS: Emerald Press.