Carieta O Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 4508219 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carieta O Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carieta |
| FAMILY NAME | O Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS C O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University Ottawa Canada |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0416-6262 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Labour Market Gatekeepers
Despite being admitted to Canada as “the best and the brightest,” immigrants often face underemployment and poverty. Few studies on immigrant labour market integration consider the role of local policy actors such as human resource management (HRM) professionals, who make and influence hiring decisions. Drawing on interviews and Relational Inequality Theory, this paper examines how HRM professionals in Alberta categorically define and evaluate im…
The Migrant Care Work Regime and the Making of the Constant‐Care Worker Among Indian Immigrant Nurses
Indian nurses coming to the U.S. on H‐1B visas that tie them to employers are often the breadwinner for spouses and other family members on dependant visas, where the dependant spouses do not have the ability to work due to visa regulations, thus upsetting complex gender dynamics in the household. In this paper, we investigate how Indian immigrant nurses in the U.S. navigate their status as the primary migrant and, family breadwinner with the inc…
Pandemic Perspectives
Pandemic Perspectives: Racialized and Gendered Experiences of Refugee and Immigrant Families in Canada Pallavi Banerjee (bio) and Carieta Thomas, Special Guest Editors (bio) In Canada and across the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified many existing underlying inequities including racial injustices and gender-based discriminations (Banerjee, Khandelwal and Sanyal 2022; Hamilton, Esses and Walton-Roberts 2022; Özkazanç Pan and Pullen 2020). …
“Island Girls”
This paper employs a quantitative intersectional analysis to explore the current labour market participation of Caribbean women care workers in Canada within the nexus of gender, race, and immigration status characterizing the care economy. Historically, Caribbean women were thought of as the quintessential migrant care workers; however, little or no recent analyses in Canada have used quantitative methods to analyse their current position. Using…
The Migrant Care Work Regime and the Making of the Constant‐Care Worker Among Indian Immigrant Nurses
Indian nurses coming to the U.S. on H‐1B visas that tie them to employers are often the breadwinner for spouses and other family members on dependant visas, where the dependant spouses do not have the ability to work due to visa regulations, thus upsetting complex gender dynamics in the household. In this paper, we investigate how Indian immigrant nurses in the U.S. navigate their status as the primary migrant and, family breadwinner with the inc…
Pandemic Perspectives
Pandemic Perspectives: Racialized and Gendered Experiences of Refugee and Immigrant Families in Canada Pallavi Banerjee (bio) and Carieta Thomas, Special Guest Editors (bio) In Canada and across the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified many existing underlying inequities including racial injustices and gender-based discriminations (Banerjee, Khandelwal and Sanyal 2022; Hamilton, Esses and Walton-Roberts 2022; Özkazanç Pan and Pullen 2020). …
“Island Girls”
This paper employs a quantitative intersectional analysis to explore the current labour market participation of Caribbean women care workers in Canada within the nexus of gender, race, and immigration status characterizing the care economy. Historically, Caribbean women were thought of as the quintessential migrant care workers; however, little or no recent analyses in Canada have used quantitative methods to analyse their current position. Using…
The Migrant Care Work Regime and the Making of the Constant‐Care Worker Among Indian Immigrant Nurses
Indian nurses coming to the U.S. on H‐1B visas that tie them to employers are often the breadwinner for spouses and other family members on dependant visas, where the dependant spouses do not have the ability to work due to visa regulations, thus upsetting complex gender dynamics in the household. In this paper, we investigate how Indian immigrant nurses in the U.S. navigate their status as the primary migrant and, family breadwinner with the inc…
Labour Market Gatekeepers
Despite being admitted to Canada as “the best and the brightest,” immigrants often face underemployment and poverty. Few studies on immigrant labour market integration consider the role of local policy actors such as human resource management (HRM) professionals, who make and influence hiring decisions. Drawing on interviews and Relational Inequality Theory, this paper examines how HRM professionals in Alberta categorically define and evaluate im…
Gender Studies (3 works) · Immigration (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Care work (2 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (2 works) · Caribbean region (1 work)