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I am a cultural anthropologist, ethnographer, and Assistant Teaching Professor in Sociology and Politics at Thompson Rivers University, located in Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc.
My scholarly work focuses on migration and citizenship, children and youth, and gender and precarious labour. My forthcoming book (UBC Press) examines youths' experiences of migration and long-term family separation after having a parent initially come to Canada to work on temporary visas. Through ethnographic storytelling and visual methods, this research considers the everyday forms of paid and unpaid labour youths perform to hold their families together through precarious, adverse, and hopeful times. |
I recently worked with a team to complete a collaborative, community-based research project in Kamloops focused on supporting newcomer communities through a Local Immigration Partnership. My next project is with the Understanding Precarity BC Partnership (UP-BC), funded by SSHRC, specifically examining the ongoing struggles of migrant care workers in Canada under rapid program changes and during COVID times with a team of academic and community-based researchers and partners.
You can find me teaching at TRU, co-editing NEOS: A Publication of the Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group, and tweeting @jennyshaw011.
You can find me teaching at TRU, co-editing NEOS: A Publication of the Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group, and tweeting @jennyshaw011.
