Education
PhD in Anthropology, University of Manitoba, Canada
MA in Political Studies, University of Manitoba, Canada
MA in Political Science, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
BA (Hon鈥檚) in Political Science, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Biography
Habiba Zaman is a Professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women鈥檚 Studies at 丁香园AV. She is also an associate member of 丁香园AV Labour Studies Program and an Honorary Research Associate of Centre for India and South Asia Research (CISAR), Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia. Zaman is the author of several books and reports including Breaking the Iron Wall: Decommodification and Immigrant Women鈥檚 Labor in Canada (2006), Asian Immigrants in 鈥淭wo Canadas鈥�: Racialization, Marginalization, and Deregulated Work (2012) and Workplace Rights for Immigrants in BC: The Case of Filipino Workers (2007). Zaman has edited a journal volume titled Migration of Bengalis to Canada: History, Settlement, Identity, and Activism in the Alternate Routes (2019). In 2017, Zaman organized a national conference entitled Canada 150: Migration of Bengalis鈥攖he first ever documentation of migration of Bengalis to Canada. She was a Board member of South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy (SANSAD) and South Asian Film Education Society (SAFES) for a decade.
Teaching
GSWS 314 Race, Gender and Class
GSWS 309 Gender and International Development
Publications
Digital Publications
Migration of Bengalis to Canada Conference Proceedings 2018
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Canadian South Asian Youth Conference Proceedings 2019
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Gender, Diversity, and Inclusion International Workshop Proceedings 2021
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Books
2012 Asian Immigrants in 鈥淭wo Canadas鈥�: Racialization, Marginalization, and Deregulated Work. Halifax & Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 127 pages.
2006 Breaking the Iron Wall: Decommodification and Immigrant Women鈥檚 Labor in Canada. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (A Division of Rowman and Littlefield Publisher), 185 pages.
1996 Women and Work in a Bangladesh Village. Dhaka: Narigrantha Prabartana/Feminist Bookstore, 1996, 148 pages.
Journal
2019 Migration of Bengalis to Canada: History, Settlement, Identity, and Activism. (Principal editor), Alternate Routes, Vol. 30 (1), 169 pages.
Monograph/Reports
2013 South Asian Skilled Immigrants in Greater Vancouver: Formal and Informal Sources of Support and Settlement, second author Syeda Nayab Bukhari (PhD Candidate GSWS), Metropolis British Columbia, Centre of Excellent for Research on Immigrants and Diversity (online publication), 55 pages.
2007 Workplace Rights for Immigrants in BC: The Case of Filipino Workers, Second authors: Cecilia Diocson and Rebecca Scott. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Vancouver, Canada. 48 pages鈥攑rint & online鈥� 20,000 copies downloaded in 2008.
Refereed Journals/Book Chapters
2012 鈥淟abouring Practices: Canada鈥� (Invited), Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures. Brill USA online Reference Works, General Editor: Suad Joseph.
2011 鈥淭he Political Economy of Asian Immigrant Labour in Canada: Intersections of Race, Gender and Class, pp. 361-375, in Reconsidering Social Identification: Race, Gender, Class and Caste. Abdul R. Janmohamed (Ed.). New Delhi: Routledge.
2010 鈥淩acialization and Marginalization of Immigrants: A New Wave of Xenophobia in Canada鈥� (Invited), Labour/Le Travail, Vol. 66 (November), pp. 163-182.
2010 鈥淧akistani Skilled/Educated Immigrant Women in Canada: An Exploratory Study鈥�, Pakistan Journal of Women鈥檚 Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 1-29.
2007 鈥淣eo-Liberal Policies and Immigrant Women in Canada,鈥� in Simon Lee and Stephen McBride (ed.) Neo-Liberalism, State Power and Global Governance, pp. 145-153. The Netherlands: Springer Book.
2004 鈥淭ransnational Migration and the Commodification of Im/migrant Female Labourers in Canada,鈥� International Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29, pp. 41- 61.
Research Interests
- Transnational Migration
- Labour Mobility
- Immigrants and Settlement in Canada
- Race, Gender and Class
- Global South and Social Movements
- South Asia