University of Calgary
Naomi Lightman
- Assistant Professor
- +1 (403) 220-8469
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Office Hours
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Research Interests
Currently Teaching
| F2021 - SOCI 311 - Introductory Social Statistics I | |||||||||||||||||
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| F2021 - SOCI 611 - Social Statistics: The General Linear Model | |||||||||||||||||
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| W2022 - SOCI 504.7 - Integrative Seminar (The Globalization of Care) | |||||||||||||||||
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| W2022 - SOCI 601.12 - Seminar in Special Topics in Sociology (The Globalization of Care) | |||||||||||||||||
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Grants, Awards, Fellowship
- Principal Investigator: SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant. Caring During the COVID19 Crisis: Immigrant Women Working in Long-Term Care in Calgary. $24,4691 (2020).
- Thelma Margaret Horte Fellowship in Women and Society. Disparities and Precarities: Retirement-Aged Immigrant Women Care Workers in Calgary. Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary. $10,000 (2020)
- Principal Investigator: SSHRC Insight Development Grant. Sorting and Shaping: The Dynamics of Labour Market Exclusion for Female Migrant Care Workers in Canada, 1980-2014, $54,148 (2018-2020)
- Research Fellow, Environics Institute for Survey Research
- Co-Investigator: SSHRC Insight Grant. Advancing social inclusion in Canada's diverse communities: Neighbourhood, regional and national comparisons, P.I. Luann Good Gingrich, $252,949, (2015-2019)
- Seed Grant, Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary, $2500 (2016-2017)
- Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship, $81,000 (2015-2017)
Public Sociology & Media Attention
- Lightman, N. and Hardcastle, L. “Opinion: How private long-term care facilities handled COVIDneeds scrutiny.” Edmonton Journal. Feb. 12 2021.
- McGarvey, D. “Calgary researcher shines light on immigrant long-term care workers”. CBC.ca. Jan.19, 2021.
- Smith, A. “Immigrant women face ‘dangerous’ working conditions in long-term care: U of C researcher”. Calgary Herald. Jan. 16 2021.
- McCoy, H. “New study examines impact of pandemic on immigrant women care workers”. Utoday. Jan. 14 2021
- Gibson, V. "Three times more racialized renters live in overcrowded housing in Toronto than non-racialized renters — and the starkest gap is among those born in Canada, study says" Toronto Star. Nov. 16 2020.
- Hardcastle, L. and Lightman, N. "A Balancing Act: Re-Opening Provincial Economies while Prioritizing Health Risks to Vulnerable Groups". University of Calgary Faculty of Law Blog. May 6, 2020.
- Lightman, N. and McCoy, T. "Canada's she-cession: COVID-19, care work and the decline of the service sector." Rabble.ca . May 6, 2020.
- McCoy, T. and Lightman, N. "The Pandemic’s Unflattering Glare: How the Crisis Is Affecting Care Workers and Prisoners." Canadian Dimensions. April 29, 2020.
- Yousif, N. "Immigrants in Calgary report overall better health outcomes than those who are Canadian born - report suggests." Toronto Star, Jan. 19 2019.
- Falvo, N. “Book Review: Social Policy in Canada (2nd edition).” The Progressive Economics Forum. Sept. 11, 2017.
- Keung, N. "'Significant' health gaps found between Canadian and immigrant seniors” Toronto Star. May 16, 2017.
- “Insiders and outsides in health and social care.” Politudes: International Social Policy Monitor. January 23, 2017.
- Keung, N. “Immigrant seniors face unequal access to home care: report.” Toronto Star. July 18, 2016.
Publications
Book
- Lightman, Ernie and Lightman, Naomi. Social Policy in Canada – 2nd Edition Oxford University Press Canada, 2017. Print.
Journal Articles - Peer Reviewed
- Lightman, Naomi. "Comparing Care Regimes: Worker Characteristics and Wage Penalties in the Global Care Chain". Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, (2020). Print.
- Lightman, Naomi and Kevins, Anthony. "Bonus or Burden? Care Work, Inequality, and Job Satisfaction in Eighteen European Countries". European Sociological Review, (2019). Print.
- Lightman, Naomi and Kevins, Anthony. "Immigrant sentiment and labour market vulnerability: economic perceptions of immigration in dualized labour markets". Comparative European Politics, (2019). Print.
- Lightman, Naomi and Good Gingrich, Luann. "Measuring economic exclusion for racialized minorities, immigrants and women in Canada: results from 2000 and 2010". Journal of Poverty, (2018). Print.
- Lightman, Naomi. "The migrant in the market: Care penalties and immigration in eight liberal welfare regimes". Journal of European Public Policy, (2018). Print.
- Lightman, Naomi. "Discounted Labour? Disaggregating Care Work in Comparative Perspective.". International Labour Review 156.2 (2017): 247-267. Print.
- Curtis, Josh and Lightman, Naomi. "Golden Years or Retirement Fears? The Rise of Private Pension Inequality for Canada’s Immigrants". Canadian Journal on Aging 36. (2017): 178-195. Print.
- Curtis, Josh, Dong, Weizhen, Lightman, Naomi and Parbst, Matthew. "Race, Language or Length of Residency? Explaining Unequal Uptake of Government Pensions in Canada". Journal of Aging and Social Policy 29 (to appear): 332-351. Print.
- Lightman, Naomi. "The ‘Migrant in the Market’: Care Penalties and Immigration in Eight Liberal Welfare Regimes". Journal of European Social Policy (to appear), Print.
- Lightman, Naomi and Elrick, Jennifer. "Sorting or Shaping? Examining the Relationship between Immigration Policy and Immigrant Economic Outcomes using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada.". International Migration Review 50.2 (2016): 352-384. Print.
- Lightman, Naomi. "Situating secondary schooling in the transnational social field: Contestation and Conflict in Greater Toronto Area classrooms". Critical Studies in Education doi:10.1080/17508487.2016.1186709 (to appear). Print.
- Good Gingrich, Luann and Lightman, Naomi. "The Empirical Measurement of a Theoretical Concept: Tracing Social Exclusion among Racial Minority and Migrant Groups in Canada". Social Inclusion 3.4 (2015): 98-11. Print.
- Lightman, Naomi and Good Gingrich, Luann. "The intersecting dynamics of social exclusion: Age, gender, race and immigrant status in Canada’s labour market". Canadian Ethnic Studies 44.3 (2012): 121-145. Print.
Technical Papers / Research Reports
- Lightman, Naomi, Wilson, Beth and Good Gingrich, Luann. Spaces and Places of Exclusion: Mapping Rental Housing Disparities for Toronto’s Racialized and Immigrant Communities 2020.
- Lightman, Naomi and Sharon M. Stroick. A Profile of Immigrant Health in Calgary 2019.
- Um, Seong-gee and Lightman, Naomi. Seniors’ Health in the GTA: How Immigration, Language, and Racialization Impact Seniors’ Health 2017.
- Um, Seong-gee and Lightman, Naomi. Ensuring Healthy Aging For All: Home Care Access in Ontario 2016.
Curriculum Vitae
Degrees
- PhD
University of Toronto, 2015 - MA
McGill University, 2009 - BA (Hons)
McGill University, 2008
Students
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