Recent Submissions

  • Falling Short: Troubles with the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program in Nova Scotia 

    Bejan, R., Allain, K, Glynn, T & Soto Flores, P. (2024). Falling Short: Troubles with the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program in Nova Scotia, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-NS Office.
    Falling Short: Troubles with the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program in Nova Scotia is the third community report released by the Migrant Workers in the Canadian Maritimes Partnership (tfwmaritimes.ca). The report follows ...
  • Anglo-American hegemony or else…! 

    Bejan, R. (2024, February). Anglo-American hegemony or else…!. Central European University Press Review of Books. Budapest, Hungary. www.ceureviewofbooks.com
    Hans Kundnani’s book Eurowhiteness (Hurst, 2023) propositions that white ethnic nationalism is at the basis of European identity. In her Long Read, however, Raluca Bejan unwraps several issues that she argues make Kundnani’s ...
  • A Tale of Two Contexts: The Ukrainian and Afghan Refugee Crises in Canada and the UK 

    Bejan, R., Mallet-Garcia, M., Lipinski, R., Do, C. & Wolf Aviles, V. (2023) A Tale of Two Contexts: The Ukrainian and Afghan Refugee Crises in Canada and the UK. COMPAS, University of Oxford.
    A Tale of Two Contexts is a comparative study that contrasts the approaches of Canada and the UK in accommodating Ukrainian and Afghan refugees. This study scrutinizes the criteria that classify refugees as deserving or ...
  • Unfree Labour: COVID-19 and Migrant Workers in the Seafood Industry in New Brunswick 

    Bejan, R., Allain, K. A., Glynn, T & Soto Flores, P. (2023). Unfree Labour: COVID-19 and Migrant Workers in the Seafood Industry in New Brunswick
    This report is the second in a series of community-based research projects undertaken by the Migrant Workers in the Canadian Maritimes partnership. It draws on desk research and qualitative interview data conducted with ...
  • After the Cold War: Why COVID-19 infection and death rates were so high in Eastern Europe 

    Bejan, R. (2022, Dec.21). After the Cold War: Why COVID-19 infection and death rates were so high in Eastern Europe. The Conversation. Toronto.
  • Why social workers should support the CUPE 3912 labour strike 

    Bejan, R. (2022, Oct. 22). Why social workers should support the CUPE 3912 labour strike. Canadian Dimension.
  • University and school strikes across Canada are about workers’ rights — and protecting education as a public good 

    Ross, N.M., Bejan.R. & Zubriski, S. (2022, Nov. 21). University and school strikes across Canada are about workers’ rights — and protecting education as a public good. The Conversation.
  • Whiteness in Question: the Anatomy of a Taxonomy Across Transnational Contexts 

    Published Version: Bejan, R. (2022). Whiteness in Question: the Anatomy of a Taxonomy Across Transnational Contexts. Dialectical Anthropology, 46(3), 347-372. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-022-09665-6
    The idea of whiteness has been used in the Anglo-American, middle-class, liberal settings to denote an essential group appurtenance on phenotypical and cultural terms and to code such appurtenance as a universal marker of ...
  • COVID-19 amongst western democracies: A welfare state analysis 

    Published Version: Bejan, R. & Nikolova, K. (2022). COVID-19 amongst comparable countries: A welfare state approach. Social Theory and Health, 20, 123-151.
    The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in more than 282 million cases and almost 5.5 million deaths (WHO Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Dashboard, 2022). Its impact, however, has not been uniform. This analysis examines ...
  • ‘NGOs are sort of a dirty word here’: Refugee service provision in Greece 

    Bejan, R. (2022, June 4). ‘NGOs are sort of a dirty word here’: Refugee service provision in Greece. Routed Magazine, https://www.routedmagazine.com/omc22-ngos-services-greece
  • How Canada Capitalizes on Ukrainian Refugees 

    Bejan, R. & Bryan, C. (2022, March 23). How Canada capitalizes on Ukrainian refugees. Verfassungsblog, https://verfassungsblog.de/how-canada-capitalizes-on-ukrainian-refugees/
    For those fleeing the war in Ukraine, Canada launched a new temporary residence pathway, the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel (CUAET) program on March 17, 2022. Offered in conjunction with a special family ...
  • Ukraine: How citizenship and race play out in refugees’ movements in Europe 

    Bejan, R. & Bogovic, R. (2022, March 11). Ukraine: How citizenship and race play out in refugees' movement in Europe. The Conversation. Toronto, ON, Canada.
    As millions of refugees flee Ukraine as a result of the Russian invasion, one question that has been raised is: Why have Ukrainians been welcomed into eastern Europe, unlike Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans and Eritreans? Is it ...
  • The EU is the real villain in the Poland-Belarus migrant crisis 

    Bejan, R., and Nabi, Salim (December 1, 2021). The EU is the real villain in the Poland-Belarus migrant crisis. The Conversation. Toronto, ON, Canada.
    The EU is attempting to position itself as a beacon of liberalism and human rights as it exempts itself from political responsibility for migrants desperately seeking better lives — all while condemning their brutal determent ...
  • The Integration of Refugees in Romania: A Non-Preferred Choice 

    Bejan, R. (2021). The Integration of Refugees in Romania: A Non-Preferred Choice. COMPAS Working Paper. University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
    Romania is currently experiencing an increase in the number of asylum seekers, but little is known about the care arrangements and state-supported integration programs in the country for people in need of international ...
  • Seguridad en el Trabajo, Inseguridad en la Casa COVID-19 y Trabajadores Extranjeros Temporales en la Isla del Príncipe Eduardo 

    Bejan, R., Allain, K.A., Glynn, T., Wheatley, A. & Soto Flores, P. (June 1st 2021). Seguridad en el Trabajo, Inseguridad en la Casa COVID-19 y Trabajadores Extranjeros Temporales en la Isla del Príncipe Eduardo. TFW Maritimes, Halifax, NS.
    Este reporte es uno de los primeros de una serie de proyectos de investigación basados en la comunidad emprendidos en colaboración con los Trabajadores Migrantes de las Marítimas Canadienses bajo la iniciativa de COVID-19 ...
  • How Canada compares to welfare states in COVID-19 cases and deaths 

    Bejan, R. and Nikolova, Kristina (October 5, 2021). How Canada compares to welfare states in COVID-19 cases and deaths. The Conversation. Toronto, ON, Canada.
  • The progressive case against mandatory vaccination 

    Bejan, R. (August 17, 2021).The progressive case against mandatory vaccination. rabble.ca Toronto, ON, Canada.
  • COVID-19 has exacerbated migrant workers’ conditions and enforced distinctions on national lines 

    Bejan, R., Allain, KA., Glynn, T. (2021, July 2). COVID-19 has exacerbated migrant workers’ conditions and enforced distinctions on national lines. COMPAS, University of Oxford. UK.
  • Safe at Work, Unsafe at Home: COVID-19 and Temporary Foreign Workers in Prince Edward Island 

    Bejan, R., Allain, Kristi Anne, Glynn, T., Wheatley, A. & Soto Flores, P. (2021, June 1). Safe at Work, Unsafe at Home COVID-19 and Temporary Foreign Workers in Prince Edward Island. TFW Maritimes. Halifax, NS.
    "Safe at Work, Unsafe at Home: COVID-19 and Temporary Foreign Workers in Prince Edward Island" is the first report in a series of research projects by the Migrant Workers in the Canadian Maritimes partnership. Using desk ...
  • Migrant Workers’ Safety Concerns Should be a Pandemic Priority 

    Bejan, Raluca; Boatcă, Manuela: Migrant Workers’ Safety Concerns Should be a Pandemic Priority, VerfBlog, 2021/4/28, https://verfassungsblog.de/migrant-workers-safety-concerns-should-be-a-pandemic-priority/, DOI: 10.17176/20210428-172449-0.

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