Negotiating Access to Public Goods: Education and Healthcare for Immigrants with Precarious Status
Objective and Approach
The purpose of this project is to examine the institutional and policy changes taking place in two clusters of public institutions (healthcare and education) that work directly with precarious status migrants.
In order to examine changes taking place in health and education, the project will consider four questions:
- What challenges do managerial and frontline workers face when servicing precarious status migrants and how do they respond?
- How have the organizational practices of institutions changed in the process of working with or offering services to precarious status migrants?
- How have organizational mandates changed as these institutions work with precarious status migrants?
- How have policy directions changed (or not) in health and education as a response to the demands for public services by precarious status migrants and their advocates?
Project Activities
We will conduct focus groups and key informant interviews with senior and middle management, frontline workers and advocates to map organizational and policy changes in health and education.
Research Team
- Patricia Landolt, Associate Professor of Sociology, Cities Centre, University of Toronto
- Yogendra Shakya, Director of Research and Evaluation, Access Alliance
- Paloma Villegas, Doctoral Candidate, OISE/U of T
- Francisco Villegas, Doctoral Candidate, OISE/U of T
Funder
- CERIS
