Judith K. Bernhard
Professor
School of Early Childhood Education
Ryerson University
bernhard@ryerson.ca
416 979 5000 ext. 7647

Background and research interests

• Background in issues of cultural diversity in human development; method of ethnographic study with communities; schooling for disadvantaged groups; refugee health and welfare; intersection of race, class and gender in experiences of migrants; design and assessment of early care and education, especially with regard to home language maintenance.
• PhD Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto OISE/UT
• Courses: Diversity in Canadian families, educating young children, culture and mental health, equity for newcomers in schools working with families; infant development; child and adolescent development, educating young children; curriculum issues in early education; historical and contemporary aspects of childhood and early education; child development in diverse backgrounds.

Selected Publications

Bernhard, J. K. (in press). "Research-based teacher education for multicultural contexts." Intercultural Education 16.

Bernhard, J. K. 2004. "Behaviour and misbehaviour of Latino children in a time of zero tolerance: mothers’ views." The Early Years Journal 24:41-62. http://reel.utsc.utoronto.ca/relac/library.php

Bernhard, J. K., Freire, M., & Mulligan, V. 2004. Canadian parenting workshops. Toronto: Chestnut.

Bernhard, J. K. 2003. "Toward a 21st century developmental theory: Principles to account for diversity in children's lives." Race, Gender, and Class 9:45-60. (15 pages).

Shor, R. & Bernhard, J. K. 2003. "A comparative study of conflicts experienced between immigrant parents in Canada and in Israel and professionals in educational institutions about appropriate responses to children misbehavior." Intercultural Education 14:385-396. (11 pages.).

Stairs, A. & Bernhard, J. K. 2003. "Considerations for evaluating good child care in Canadian Aboriginal early childhood settings." McGill Journal of Education 37:309-330. (21 pages.).

Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., Bernhard, J. K., & Freire, M. 2001. "Struggling to preserve home language: The experiences of Latin American families in the Canadian school system." Bilingual Research Journal 25:115-145. http://brj.asu.edu/v2512/.

Bernhard, J.K., Freire, M., Pacini-Ketchabaw, V. 2000. "Apoyo a la participación de padres en las escuelas primarias: Un estudio etnográfico de un grupo latino americano en Canadá." Educational Policy Analysis Archives 8:http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v8n52.html.

Bernhard, J. K., & Freire, M. 1999. "What is my child learning at school? Culturally contested issues of Latin American children and families?" Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal 31:72-94. http://reel.utsc.utoronto.ca/relac/library.php

Bernhard, J. K. 1999. "Institutionalized disadvantage in education and the right to equal benefit of the law: The next step after non-discrimination." Revue Quebecoise de Droit International 12:241-248.

Bernhard, J. K., Freire, M., Pacini-Ketchabaw, V. & Villanueva, V. 1998. "A Latin American parents' group participates in their children's schooling: Parent involvement reconsidered." Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal 30:77-98. http://reel.utsc.utoronto.ca/relac/library.php

Bernhard, J. K., Freire, M., Torres, F., & Nirdosh, S. 1998. "Latin Americans in a Canadian primary school: Perspectives of parents, teachers, and children on cultural identity and academic achievement." Journal of Regional Studies 19:217- 236. http://reel.utsc.utoronto.ca/relac/library.php

Bernhard, J. K. & Freire, M. 1997. "Caring for and teaching the children of refugee families." Pp. 177- 196 in Include me too: Human diversity in early childhood, edited by K. M. Kilbride. Toronto: Harcourt Brace.

Freire, M. & Bernhard, J. K. 1997. "Caring for and teaching children who speak other languages." Pp. 160-176 in Include me too: Human diversity in early childhood, edited by K. M. Kilbride. Toronto: Harcourt Brace.

Bernhard, J. K., & Freire, M. 1996. "Latino refugee children in childcare: A study of parents and caregivers." Canadian Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education 5:59-71. http://reel.utsc.utoronto.ca/relac/library.php

For more information visit: http://www.ryerson.ca/~bernhard/

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Luin Goldring
Associate Professor of Sociology
York University
 goldring@yorku.ca 
(416) 736-2100, ext. 60311

Background and research interests 

• Transnational migration; relations between the Mexican state and Mexicans abroad; citizenship and legal status; gender and migration; remittances; Latin Americans in Canada.
• PhD in Rural Sociology, Cornell University
• Fellow, York’s Centrefor Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC)
• Courses: Migration and transnationalisms; International Migration: Immigration, The State and Transnationalism; Ethnicity, Identity and Politics.

Selected Publications

Goldring, L. (Forthcoming). "Latin American Transnationalism in Canada: Does it exist, what forms does it take and where is it going?" Pp. Ch. 9 in Negotiating borders and belonging: Transnational identities and practices in Canada, edited by L. Wong and V. Satzewich: University of British Columbia Press.

Goldring, L. 2004. "Family and Collective Remittances to Mexico: A Multi-dimensional Typology of Remittances." Development and Change 35:799-840.

Goldring, L., Henders, S., Vandergeest, P. 2003. "The Politics of Transnational Ties: Implications for Policy, Research, and Communities." Report to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Goldring, L. 2002. "The Mexican State & Transmigrant Organizations: Negotiating the Boundaries of Membership & Participation in the Mexican Nation." Latin American Research Review 37: 55-99.

Rose, D., Bernhard, J., Creese, C., Dyck, I., Goldring, L., McLaren, A., Nolin, C., Preston, V., Ray, B., Tastsoglou, E. 2002. "Strategic Workshop on Immigrant Women Making Place in Canadian Cities. Policy Relevant Research on Immigration and Settlement - Relevant for Whom? A Working Document." Urbanisation, Culture et Société, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, and Immigration et Métropoles http://GenderImmigration.inrs-ucs.uquebec.ca, Montréal.

Goldring, L. 2001. "The Gender & Geography of Citizenship in Mexico-U.S. Transnational Spaces." Identities 7:501-537.

Goldring, L. 1998. "The Power of Status in Transnational Social Fields." Comparative Urban and Community Research 6:165-195.

Goldring, L. 1998. "From Market Membership to Transnational Citizenship?: The Changing Politization of Transnational Social Spaces." L'Ordinaire Latino Americain ( Toulouse):173-174,167-172.

For more information visit: http://www.arts.yorku.ca/soci/goldring

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Patricia Landolt
Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of Toronto
landolt@utsc.utoronto.ca
416 978 1350

Background and research interests

• Transnationalism, community formation, urban studies, economic sociology. Research focuses on Latin American migrations and integrates issues of citizen and workers rights into the analysis of migrant labour market incorporation, and immigrant political participation and socio-cultural adaptation in places of origin and cities of resettlement.
• PhD in Sociology, The Johns Hopkins University - 2000
• Courses: Ethnicity, Racialization and Identity Formation in Canada; Comparative Race Relations; New Theory and Methods in International Migration

Selected Publications

Landol, P. & Da, W. 2005. "The Spatially Ruptured Practices of Transnational Migrant Families: Lessons from the Case of El Salvador and the People's Republic of China." Current Sociology.

Landolt, P. 2004. "La Construcción de Comunidades en Campos Sociales Transnacionales: El Caso de Los Refugiados, Migrantes y Repatriados de El Salvador." Centro de Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos, CEMLA, Buenos Aires.

Landolt, P. 2003. "El Transnacionalismo Político y el derecho al voto en el exterior: El caso de El Salvador y sus migrantes en Estados Unidos." in Votar en la Distancia: La Extensión de derechos políticos a migrantes, experiencias comparadas, edited by L. Calderón. México, DF: Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José Ma. Luis Mora.

Landolt, P. 2001. "Salvadoran Economic Transnationalism: Embedded Strategies for Household Maintenance, Immigrant Incorporation, and Entrepreneurial Expansion." Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs 1:217-241.

For more information visit: http://www.urbancentre.utoronto.ca/associates.html#Landolt

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Martha Barriga
M.A. Adult Education Community,
International and Transformative Learning -
Environmental Studies
OISE/UT
martha.barriga@utoronto.ca

Background and research interests   

• Social and environmental programs in Colombia, environmental education, community development, community gardens
• Latin American immigrants’ participation

Selected Publications

Armony, V., Barriga, M., Schugurensky, D. 2004. "Citizenship Learning and Political Participation: The Experience of Latin American Immigrants in Canada." Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 29:17 - 38.

For more information visit http://home.oise.utoronto.ca/%7Elared/members.htm#barriga

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Paola Bohórquez
Ph.D Candidate
Social and Political Thought
York University
pabla71@yorku.ca

Background and research interests

• Clinical psychologist, psychoanalysis and philosophy.
• Literature of exile, translation, language and subjectivity.

Selected Publications

Bohórquez, P. (Forthcoming). "Naked Power and Psychic Annihilation: The Legacy of Schreber and the Muselmann." GR Journal for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology.

Bohórquez, P. 1998. "El Rol de la Madre Comunitaria y su Relación con la Dinámica del Hogar de Bienestar." in Formación de Investigadores: Estudios Sociales y Propuestas de Futuro, edited by E. Bonilla. Bogotá: Colciencias.

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Hanna Caplan
M.A. Student Sociology
York University  
hcaplan@yorku.ca  

Background and Research Interest  

• Latin American studies, refugee studies, migration and transnationalism.
• Undergraduate honours thesis: “Integration' According to a Group of Young Salvadorans in Montreal.”. Available in RELAC's virtual library: http://reel.utsc.utoronto.ca/relac/library.php

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Wei Wei Da
PhD Sociology
University of Sydney
weiwei.da@utoronto.ca

Background and Research Interest  

Selected Publications

Da, W. 2003. "Transnational Grandparenting: Child Care Arrangements among Migrant from People's Republic of China to Australia." Journal of international Migration and Integration 4:79-103

Da, W. 2003. "Gender Relations in Recent Chinese Migration to Australia." Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 12:361-384.

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Gloria Patricia Díaz Barrero
Social Science
Ph.D. Social and Political Science
Social and Political Thought
York University
gpdiaz@yorku.ca

Background and research interests keywords

• Member of the “Latin American Coalition against Racism” and co-host of “Sembradoras”.
• Carried out research with Latin American exotic dancers in Toronto.
• Current research is on Latin American migrant sex workers and Latinas’ identity in Canada.

Selected Publications

Díaz Barrero, G. P. 2004. "Inmigración e Identidad de la Comunidad Latina y Latinoamericana en Canadá." Visages d'Amérique 1:27-30.

Díaz Barrero, G. P. 2004. "Bailarinas Exóticas, Striptease e Inmigración en Canadá." Colombia international 59:142-159.

Díaz Barrero, G.P. 2003. "Can The Subaltern Speak?" Critical Times, November 10.

Díaz Barrero, G.P. & LACEV. 2002. "Coming to Dance, striving to Survive: A Study on Latin American Migrant Exotic Dancers." Latin American Coalition to End Violence against women and children (LACEV), Toronto. http://reel.utsc.utoronto.ca/relac/library.php

Díaz Barrero, G.P., & Sztainbok Mazui, V. 2002. "The War at Home is not New." Fireweed 77:40-47.

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Jasmin Hristov
MA Sociology,
York University  
jasminhr@yorku.ca  

Background and research interests

• Neoliberalism and development in Latin America; human rights, violence and militarization in Colombia; Latin American rural movements  
• Part-time secondary school teacher with Toronto District School Board  

Selected Publications  

Hristov, J. (Forthcoming). "Freedom and Democracy or Hunger and Terror: Neoliberalism and Militarization in Latin America." Social Justice.

Hristov, J. (Forthcoming). "The Struggle against Hunger and Terror: Community Spirit, Dignity, and the Indigenous People of Cauca." Socialist Studies Bulletin.

Hristov, J. 2005. "Indigenous Struggles for Land and Culture in Cauca ( Colombia)." Journal of Peasant Studies 32: 88 -117.

Hristov, J. 2004. "Land, Blood and Capital Accumulation: Latin America's Eternal War on The Poor." Journal of Peacebuilding and Development 1:4-19.

Hristov, J., & Brittain, J. 2004. "The War on Campus: Notes from the Trenches of Colombia." Critical Times 2.

Hristov, J. 2003. "Crisis in Colombia: Making Connections and Making a Difference." CERLAC On-line Bulletin Series 2: www.yorku.ca/cerlac.

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Joana Londoño
Graduate student
M.A Communication and Culture
York University
jlondono@yorku.ca

Background and research interests

• Critical and postcolonial theory, in particular the relation of knowledge to power, and the North American idea and images of Latin American immigrants.
• Cultural and ideological significance of the representation of Latin Americans in mainstream North American cinema.
• The colonial past and its legacy in Latin American diasporic literature and filmmaking.
• Thesis title :“Thieves, lovers and bananas: Hollywood and the exotization of Latin American Magical realism”

For more information: http://www.students.yorku.ca/~jlondono/

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Delmy Xiomara Peraza-Torres
MA candidate, Communication and Culture
York University
xpichi@aol.com  

Background and research interests

• Current research is on Salvadoran migratory policies with a focus on local governments.
• Also doing research on the Salvadoran print media and press coverage on political and social issues.  

Selected Publications

González, J., Guzmán, N., Rivera. I., & Peraza, X. 2005. Revista de Estudios Centroamericanos ECA . (Forthcoming). "La construcción de un mártir."

González, J., Guzmán N., & Peraza, X. 2004. "La representación simbólica del salvaje." Revista de Estudios Centroamericanos ECA, pp. 958-963.

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