The Department of History in collaboration with the Canadian International Council is pleased to host Dr. Salimah Valiani, Associate Researcher with the Centre for the Study of Education and Work at the University of Toronto, who will speak on "Unequal Exchange: The Realities of International Nurse Migration."
This event is co-sponsored by the Lakehead University Gender Issues Centre and Multicultural Centre, the Ontario Nurses Association Local 075, and Ontario Public Service Employees Union Local 720.
Speaker's Bio: Dr. Salimah Valiani is Associate Researcher with the Centre for the Study of Education and Work at the University of Toronto, and Economist of the Ontario Nurses' Association, the largest nurses' union in Canada.
With an academic background in world historical political economy, her research specializations are in the areas of international labour migration, caring labour, economic development, and world inequality. Since 2001, she has worked with non-governmental organizations and unions in Canada, Indonesia, the Philippines, India, and South Africa.
She is the author of the research monograph, Rethinking Unequal Exchange: the global integration of nursing labour markets (University of Toronto Press), a range of academic and policy papers, and two collections of poetry. In June 2012 she was awarded the Feminist Economics Rhonda Williams Prize - an award recognizing feminist scholarship and activism in the spirit of the African American economist and activist, Rhonda Williams.
