Dr. Yukiko Tanaka

Biography

Yukiko Tanaka is an Assistant Professor in the Teaching Stream at the University of Toronto, where she specializes in sociology with a focus on colonialism, racialization, and migrations. She holds a PhD from the University of Toronto and has completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Faculty Equity Solidarity Office. Her research explores issues of solidarity across the dimensions of race, gender, and nationality, particularly within the immigrant settlement sector and postsecondary education. Her doctoral research examined the role of immigrant settlement agencies in fostering solidarity with Indigenous communities through an ethnographic study of a program that connects Indigenous and immigrant youth. Yukiko is committed to enhancing student learning through experiential land-based learning methodologies in her courses on race, ethnicity, and migration. She is actively engaged in scholarly discourse, with recent publications addressing themes of migration and care employment regimes, as well as the dynamics of coresidence in North America.

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