Luann Good Gingrich
Professor
Academic Director, Research Commons
Office: Kaneff Tower 508
Phone: Cell: 519-500-3931
Email: luanngg@yorku.ca
Primary website: Research Commons
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Luann Good Gingrich is a Professor in the School of Social Work, and Academic Director of the Research Commons at York University. Using an approach to critical analysis of social systems based in Reflexive Sociology (Bourdieu), Popular Education (Freire), Institutional Ethnography (Smith) and Community-Based Research, her research aims to describe and measure the processes and outcomes of social exclusion and inclusion. Her work zeros in on the interface of ideology (or worldview), material and symbolic inequality, migration and displacement, and social welfare and human services. She integrates theory development, community-engaged research, secondary quantitative data analysis and critical pedagogy to inspire imaginations and strategies for social inclusion through inter-personal change, place change, and system change. She applies her theoretical and empirical work to the development of approaches to research, social policy and practice that lead from inequality to just relationships, from structural violence to social healing, and from competition and conflict to collaboration and shared responsibility.
Good Gingrich is a member of the editorial board for the International Journal of Migration and Border Studies.
The complex relationships between the state, “mainstream” society, and culturally and religiously distinct communities have been central in Good Gingrich's professional practice and academic work. Her earlier research traced official policies and practices to the everyday lives of migrant groups in Canada (temporary migrant workers, Mennonite migrants from Mexico) and Central American migrant women in southern Mexico. Her analyses have demonstrated the paradoxical outcomes of marketized social policies and human services, as they function to make and organize social groups defined by race, ethnicity, nation, class, religion, and gender. In the past decade, Good Gingrich has extended her program of research to examine the dynamics of social exclusion and inclusion in transnational and local contexts. Specifically:
- the intersecting dimensions of social/ecological splits of market logic as manifested in transnational (im)mobilities and displacement, and the role of national social welfare and human services
- cultivating cultures of inclusion to transform symbolic economies of exclusion in human service organizations
- the precise role of the devaluation of the Indigenous Feminine and symbolic violence in the Canadian colonial project.
Good Gingrich's research interests and teaching expertise include:
- Social exclusion and transnational livelihoods, and the role of social welfare and human services
- Cultivating cultures of inclusion in human service organizations
- Social exclusion and inclusion for (im)migrants and racialized groups in Canada
- Social dynamics defined by migration, gender, religion, ethnicity, race, and wealth
- Formal and informal processes of social division and social support in transnational and supra-national social environments
- The paradoxes of voluntary social exclusion, “choice”, and social inclusion in contexts of migratory livelihoods
- “Women’s work” in globalized, polarized, de-socialized, racialised and feminized labour markets
- Emerging forms of diaspora, particularly for Dietsche Mennonites from Latin America
- The intersections between ideas, material realities and subjective experience of policy systems and social programs
Degrees
PhD, Social Work, University of Toronto
Master of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University
Research Interests
Current Research Projects
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Summary:
- the intersecting dimensions of social/ecological splits of market logic as manifested in transnational (im)mobilities and displacement, and the role of national social welfare and human services
- cultivating cultures of inclusion to transform symbolic economies of exclusion in human service organizations
- the precise role of the devaluation of the Indigenous Feminine and symbolic violence in the Canadian colonial project.
Good Gingrich's research interests and teaching expertise include:
- Social exclusion and transnational livelihoods, and the role of social welfare and human services
- Cultivating cultures of inclusion in human service organizations
- Social exclusion and inclusion for (im)migrants and racialized groups in Canada
- Social dynamics defined by migration, gender, religion, ethnicity, race, and wealth
- Formal and informal processes of social division and social support in transnational and supra-national social environments
- The paradoxes of voluntary social exclusion, “choice”, and social inclusion in contexts of migratory livelihoods
- “Women’s work” in globalized, polarized, de-socialized, racialised and feminized labour markets
- Emerging forms of diaspora, particularly for Dietsche Mennonites from Latin America
- The intersections between ideas, material realities and subjective experience of policy systems and social programs
Degrees
PhD, Social Work, University of Toronto
Master of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University
Research Interests
, social exclusion/inclusion; epistemic reflexivity; relational accountability; migration and border studies; critical social policy analysis; social welfare and human servicesCurrent Research Projects
Creating Space: Precarious Status Women Leading Local Pandemic Responses
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Summary:
Creating Space is a collaborative project co-directed by seven research directors from five faculties and six Organized Research Units (ORUs) at York U, with 11 community partners. Funded by Women and Gender Equality Canada's Feminist Response and Recovery Fund, this two-year collaboration will advance a feminist response to the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. The project centers precarious status women’s experiences to support self-determination and accelerate systemic change to address economic insecurity, promote frontline workplace safety, and reduce systemic gender-based violence in the context of COVID-19.
Description:
Co-directors include:
Angele Alook (Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies)
Elaine Coburn (Director, Centre for Feminist Research; International Studies at Glendon College)
Luann Good Gingrich (Director, Global Labour Research Centre; Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies)
Heidi Matthews (Osgoode Hall Law School)
Deborah McGregor (Director, Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages; Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Environmental Justice; Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change/Osgoode Hall Law School)
Gertrude Mianda (Director, Harriet Tubman Institute; Gender and Women's Studies at Glendon College)
Yu-Zhi Joel Ong (Director, Sensorium: Centre for Digital Art and Technology; Faculty of Arts, Media, Performance & Design)The ORUs include the Centre for Feminist Research, the Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages, the Global Labour Research Centre, the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security, the Harriet Tubman Institute, and Sensorium: Centre for Digital Art and Technology.
Community partners include:
Project Type: Funded
1. Migrant Resource Centre Canada
2. Kashe Dance
3. Canadian Caribbean Art Stars Inc.
4. Feminist Alliance for International Action Canada (FAFIA)
5. Nail Salon Workers Project
6. ACORN Canada
7. BC Employment Standards Coalition
8. Global Legal Action Network
9. Black Creek Community Health Centre
10. The Ajumose Mentorship and Oversight Group of Ontario (Tamogo) Foundation
11. Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres
Role: Co-PI
Start Date:- Month: Sep Year: 2022
End Date:- Month: Mar Year: 2024
Community Science and Accountability for Canada's Colonial Genocide Past and Present
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Summary:
Tri-Council of Research Canada, New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) – 2021 Innovative Approaches to Research in the Pandemic Context. Co-PIs Heidi Matthews (Osgoode Hall Law School); and Yuzhi Joel Ong (School of Arts, Media, Performance & Design), York U.
Project Type: Funded
Role: Co-Investigator
Start Date:- Month: Dec Year: 2022
COVID 19: Building Economic Inclusion and Food Justice
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Summary:
“COVID 19: Building Economic Inclusion and Food Justice” is a two-year community-based project co-led by Luann Good Gingrich (York University), Collaborator Omar Khan (Engaged Communities), and The Neighbourhood Organization (TNO). This collaborative project aims to document and mitigate the immediate and long-term “viral inequality” of the pandemic. The specific objectives are: 1) to understand and chronicle experiences of economic insecurity and food insecurity, and the relationship between them, since the onset of COVID-19, with the intent of establishing a robust base of evidence to inform further development of food justice and inclusive economic development initiatives in Flemingdon Park and Thorncliffe Park; 2) to evaluate the TNO Food Collaborative and other COVID-19 emergency food delivery services initiated to address immediate food security and health concerns; 3) to collaborate with community organizations, local businesses and farmers, and municipal staff to share information related to resources, data, needs, and initiatives related to food security; and 4) to engage in an assessment of community-level resources in order to build an inventory of individual and collective skills, interests, experience, and education in support of refining and expanding community food justice initiatives in the face of COVID-19, and beyond.
Project Type: Funded
Role: PI
Start Date:- Month: Jan Year: 2020
End Date:- Month: Dec Year: 2022
Collaborator: Darcy MacCallum, TNO; Omar Khan, Engaged Communities
TASC (Tracing and Addressing Social Exclusion in Canada)
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Summary:
Long title: Advancing social inclusion in Canada’s diverse communities: Neighbourhood, regional, and national comparisons
Project Type: Funded
Role: Principal Investigator
Start Date:- Month: Apr Year: 2015
End Date:- Month: Mar Year: 2022
All Publications
Book Chapters
PublicationYearEnns, T., Good Gingrich, L., & Perez, K. (2020). Religious Heritage, Institutionalized Ethos, and Synergies: Mennonite Central Committee and Canada’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program. In Labman, S. & Cameron, G. (Eds.), Strangers to Neighbours: Refugee Sponsorship in Context , pp. 95-111. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press.
2020Good Gingrich, L. & S. Köngeter. (2017). Social exclusion and social welfare: Within, across and in between nation-state boundaries. In Good Gingrich, L. & S. Köngeter. (Eds.). Transnational social policy – Social welfare in a world on the move (pp. 265-286). London; New York: Routledge.
2017Young, J., L. Good Gingrich, A. Wiebe, & M. Harder. (2017). Tactical borderwork: Central American migrant women negotiating the southern border of Mexico. In Good Gingrich, L. & S. Köngeter. (Eds.). Transnational social policy – Social welfare in a world on the move (pp. 200-221). London; New York: Routledge.
2017Swift, K., L. Good Gingrich & M. Brown. (2016). Social work education: The challenge of neoliberalism (Chapter 33). In Taylor, I., M. Bogo, M. Lefevre & B. Teater (Eds.). International Handbook of Social Work Education (pp. 382-393). London; New York: Routledge.
2016Good Gingrich, L. (2011) . Negotiating double binds of in-between: A gendered perspective of formal and informal social supports in transnationality. In A. Chambon, W. Schroer & C. Schweppe (Eds.), Transnational social support (pp. 89-107). New York: Taylor & Francis/Routledge.
2011Good Gingrich, L. (2003) . Theorizing social exclusion: Determinants, mechanisms, dimensions, forms, and acts of resistance. In W. Shera (Ed.), Emerging perspectives on anti-oppressive practice (pp. 3-23). Toronto: Canadian Scholar’s Press, Inc./Women’s Press.
2003
Books
PublicationYear
Journal Articles
PublicationYearGood Gingrich, L. & Enns, T. (2019). A reflexive view of refugee integration and inclusion: A case study of Mennonite Central Committee and the Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees/revue canadienne sur les réfugiés 35(2), 9-23.
2019Good Gingrich, L. & J. E. E. Young. (2019). Borders for profit: Transnational social exclusion and the production of the NAFTA border. International Journal of Migration and Border Studies 5(1/2), 64-81.
2019Lightman, N. & L. Good Gingrich. (2018) . Measuring economic exclusion for racialized minorities, immigrants and women in Canada: Results from 2000 and 2010. Journal of Poverty. Published on-line May 7, 2018. DOI: 10.1080/10875549.2018.1460736
2018Köngeter, S. & L. Good Gingrich. (2017). Cultivating cultures of inclusion in social service organizations: An international collaboration. Transnational Social Review 7(3), 325-330. DOI: 10.1080/21931674.2017.1361149.
2017Good Gingrich, L. (2017). More thoughts on reflexivity. In “Bourdieu in Plain Anabaptist Studies? A Symposium Review of Out of place: Social exclusion and Mennonite migrants in Canada”.
Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies 5(2), 265-269.2017Good Gingrich, L. & Lightman, N. (2015) . The empirical measurement of a theoretical concept: Tracing social exclusion among racial minority and migrant groups in Canada. Social Inclusion 3(4), 98-111.
2015Good Gingrich, L. (2014) . Protecting cultural heritage in the context of migratory livelihoods. International Migration 52, 1-20.
2014Lightman, N. & Good Gingrich, L. (2012) . The intersecting dynamics of social exclusion: Age, gender, race and immigrant status in Canada’s labour market. Canadian Ethnic Studies 44(3), 121-145.
2012Good Gingrich, L. (2010) . The symbolic economy of trans-border governance: A case study of subjective exclusion and migrant women from Mexico. Refugee Survey Quarterly, 29(1), 161-184.
2010Good Gingrich, L. & Preibsch, K. (2010) . Migration as preservation and loss: The paradox of transnational living for Low German Mennonite women. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 36(9), 1499-1518.
2010Good Gingrich, L. (2010) . Single mothers, work(fare), and managed precariousness. Journal of Progressive Human Services 21(2), 107-135.
2010Good Gingrich, L. (2008) . Social exclusion and double jeopardy – The management of lone mothers in the market-state social field. Social Policy and Administration, 42, 379-395.
2008Good Gingrich, L. & Lightman, E. (2006) . Striving toward self-sufficiency: A qualitative study of mutual aid in an Old Order Mennonite community. Family Relations, 55, 175-189.
2006Good Gingrich, L. & Lightman, E. (2004) . Mediating communities and cultures: A case study of informal helpers in an Old Order Mennonite community. Families in Society, 85(4), 511-520.
2004Good Gingrich, L. (2003) . Social exclusion as an individual kind – A categorical point of view. Canadian Review of Social Policy, 52 (Fall/Winter), 93-115.
2003Good Gingrich, L. (2003) . Constructing identity and drawing lines: The textual work of Ontario’s Safe Streets Act. Journal of Canadian Studies, 37(4), 151-170.
2003
Conference Papers
PublicationYearLightman, N. and Good Gingrich, L. May 2015. The dynamics of economic exclusion for immigrants and racialized minorities in Canada: A multilevel model analysis. Congrès international sur l’Immigration, l’Intégration et l’Inclusion/International Conference on Immigration, Integration and Inclusion, Québec City, Canada.
2015Young, J., Good Gingrich, L., Wiebe, A., Harder, M. July 2014. The ‘choice’ of necessity: Central American migrant women negotiating the southern border of Mexico. International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, Bogotá, Colombia.
2014Good Gingrich, L. and Fast, K. May 2014. Mennonite women at home on the edge? A consideration of counter cultural and religious dispositions. Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Toronto, Ontario.
2014Good Gingrich, L., Young, J., Wiebe, A., Harder, M. April 2014. The double binds of borderwork: Migrant women in southern Mexico. Association for Borderland Studies, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
2014Lightman, N. and Good Gingrich, L. March 2014. The exclusionary dynamics of data collection: Exploring non-response rates among immigrant and racialized groups through the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics. 16th National Metropolis Conference, Partnering for Success: Facilitating Integration and Inclusion Gatineau, Quebec.
2014Good Gingrich, L. and Lightman, N. October 2013. Exploring economic exclusion trajectories of visible minorities and immigrants in Canada: A Multilevel Model using the 2005-2010 Panel of the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics. Canadian Research Data Centre Network Conference, Waterloo, Ontario.
2013Good Gingrich, L. and Swift, K. June 2013. Anti-oppressive social work education: A project of the privileged? Canadian Association for Social Work Education - l’Association Canadienne pour la formation en travail social (CASWE-ACFTS). University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia.
2013Good Gingrich, L. May 2013. Perspectives on social exclusion and basic income. The 12th Annual North America Basic Income Guarantee Congress. New York City, New York.
2013Good Gingrich, L. and Preibisch, K. May 2013. Permanently temporary, perpetually precarious: Migrant workers in Canada’s food industry. The 2013 Conference of the Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement. Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario.
2013Lightman, N. and Good Gingrich, L. May 2013. Dynamics of race, ethnicity, and nationality in Canada’s labour market: Application of an Economic Exclusion Index. 7th Annual International Conference on Sociology, Athens, Greece.
2013Lightman, N., Good Gingrich, L. and Mitchell, A. April 2013. The dynamics of economic exclusion for immigrants and racialised groups in Canada. Conference on “Migration: Global Development, New Frontiers” organized by NORFACE Research Programme on Migration and the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM). University College London, U.K.
2013Chambon, A.; Schröer, W.; Good Gingrich, L; Wang, F.; Lightman, E.; Schweppe, C.; Köngeter, S.; Olivier, C. March 2013. Symposium entitled Transnational social support: Care, social policy and history in a transnational world. The 3rd European Conference for Social Work Research. University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
2013Good Gingrich, L. March 2013. Organizer and moderator for Workshop entitled The dynamics of social exclusion for immigrants and racialised groups in Canada. 15th National Metropolis Conference, “Building an Integrated Society”. Ottawa, Ontario.
2013Lightman, N. and Good Gingrich, L. March 2013. Growing divides for Canada’s immigrant and racialized communities: Applying an Economic Exclusion Index, 1996-2010. 15th National Metropolis Conference, “Building an Integrated Society”. Ottawa, Ontario.
2013Good Gingrich, L. and Lightman, N. March 2013. A quantitative examination of economic exclusion/inclusion trajectories for immigrants and refugees using secondary data. 6th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS). St. Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
2013Lightman, N. & Good Gingrich, L. March 2012. The intersecting dynamics of social exclusion: Age, gender, race and immigrant status in Canada’s labour force. The 14th National Metropolis Conference. Toronto, Ontario.
2012Lightman, N. & Good Gingrich, L. October 2012. Applying an Economic Exclusion Index: Trends and dynamics for immigrants and racialized groups in Canada. Canadian Research Data Centre Network Conference. Fredericton, New Brunswick.
2012Preibisch, K. and Good Gingrich, L. December 2012. Temporary migration programs and forced labour in Canada’s food industry. Conference on “Vulnerable Workers, Forced Labour, Migration and Ethical Trading”. University of Leeds, United Kingdom.
2012Good Gingrich, L. October 2010. “Choice,” social inclusion, and transnational livelihoods. Latin American Studies Association Confernece. Toronto, Ontario.
2010Kimber, M. & Good Gingrich, L. October 2009. Localizing crime and mental illness in a global agenda: Policy analysis for practical change. 15th Annual Qualitative Health Research Conference, International Institute for Qualitative Methodology. Vancouver, British Columbia.
2009Good Gingrich, L. May 2009. Redefining and defending family in transnationality. German-Canadian Symposium on Transnational Social Support. University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
2009Good Gingrich, L. June 2009. Social exclusion, trans-border regulation, and migrant women from Mexico. 12th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM 12). University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus.
2009Good Gingrich, L. June, 2008. Double jeopardy, social exclusion, and lone mothers in the market-state social field. Panel entitled “Approaches to Economic Security in Canada: Challenges, Possibilities, and Strategies”. Congress of the Basic Income Earth Network. Quinn Business School in University College, Dublin, Ireland.
2008Good Gingrich, L. June, 2008. Double jeopardy, social exclusion, and lone mothers in the market-state social field. Panel entitled “Approaches to Economic Security in Canada: Challenges, Possibilities, and Strategies”. Congress of the Basic Income Earth Network. Quinn Business School in University College, Dublin, Ireland.
2008Good Gingrich, L. March, 2008. The management of lone mothers – Workfare, precarious lives, and double jeopardy. Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis, Missouri.
2008Good Gingrich, L. & Preibisch, K. November, 2007. Women entredeux the sacred and the secular. “Women, religion, and development”, Conference of the Joint Chair in Women’s Studies, University of Ottawa and Carleton University. Ottawa, Ontario.
2007Good Gingrich, L. November, 2006. The commodification of human rights. Conference of the American Public Health Association. Boston, MA.
2006Good Gingrich, L. June, 2006. Migration, fieldwork, and survival. International Association for the Study of Forced Migration 10th Biennial Conference. York University, Toronto, Ontario.
2006Good Gingrich, L. May, 2006. Forced migration, confrontation, and women’s work. Conference on Women, Immigration, Transnational Migration and Public Policy sponsored by the Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies for the Maritimes and the Feminist Public Policy Project. Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
2006Good Gingrich, L. October, 2005. Contradiction, confrontation, and meanings of work. 10th International Karl Polanyi Conference, Social Policy Forum sponsored by the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy. Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey.
2005Good Gingrich, L. June, 2005. Acculturating social inclusion. Multicultural Days – An International Perspective. Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario.
2005Good Gingrich, L. February, 2005. Women’s work. Conference of the Association for Research on Mothering. York University, Toronto, Ontario.
2005
Research Reports
PublicationYearGood Gingrich. (2019). Refugee Newcomer Sponsorship and Social Inclusion: A Learning Resource. Kitchener, ON: Mennonite Central Committee Ontario.
2019Good Gingrich, L. and Snyder, P. (1997) . A mother’s garden – Planting seeds of hope. A learning resource. A Peer Nutrition Workers’ Training Manual. Published by Oracle Design Group, Waterloo, Ontario.
1997
Public Lectures
PublicationYearOctober 2014. (With Young, J., Wiebe, A., Harder, M.) The ‘choice’ of necessity: Central American migrant women negotiating the southern border of Mexico. Migration Matters: Precarious Pathways to Migration, York University.
2014May 2010. Guest lecture: Gender, social exclusion, and transborder regulation. Social Policy Research Centre, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
2010May 2010. Women’s care work: The feminization, criminalization, and commodification of forced migration. 2010 International Symposium on Transnational Organization of Care. National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
2010January 2009. Women and migration: Reflections on a learning tour with Mennonite Central Committee. Presentation for the Plautdietsch (Low German) radio station De Brigj, Aylmer, Ontario.
2009January, 2008. Women entredeux the sacred and the secular: A consideration of gender, religion and transnational livelihoods. Social Work Brown Bag Research Seminar, School of Social Work, York University.
2008June, 2008. (With K. Preibisch and M. Peters.) Understanding the effects of migration on Low German Mennonite women and their families. Annual Networking Day for Professional Service Providers of Low German Mennonite Families, Aylmer, Ontario.
2008April, 2007. The management of lone mothers – Precarious work, commodified meaning, and “fighting back”. Social Work Annual Research Symposium. York University, Toronto, Ontario.
2007June, 2006. Understanding expressions of self-imposed social exclusion. Annual Networking Day for Professional Service Providers of Low German Families, Aylmer, Ontario.
2006June, 2004. Social exclusion of Low German families: Theory and its realities.
2004
Forthcoming
PublicationYearGood Gingrich, L. & Köngeter, S. (Eds.) (in press) . Transnational social policy – Social welfare in a world on the move. Routledge. (Forthcoming in early 2017.)
2017
Creating Space is a collaborative project co-directed by seven research directors from five faculties and six Organized Research Units (ORUs) at York U, with 11 community partners. Funded by Women and Gender Equality Canada's Feminist Response and Recovery Fund, this two-year collaboration will advance a feminist response to the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. The project centers precarious status women’s experiences to support self-determination and accelerate systemic change to address economic insecurity, promote frontline workplace safety, and reduce systemic gender-based violence in the context of COVID-19.
Description:Co-directors include:
Angele Alook (Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies)
Elaine Coburn (Director, Centre for Feminist Research; International Studies at Glendon College)
Luann Good Gingrich (Director, Global Labour Research Centre; Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies)
Heidi Matthews (Osgoode Hall Law School)
Deborah McGregor (Director, Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages; Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Environmental Justice; Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change/Osgoode Hall Law School)
Gertrude Mianda (Director, Harriet Tubman Institute; Gender and Women's Studies at Glendon College)
Yu-Zhi Joel Ong (Director, Sensorium: Centre for Digital Art and Technology; Faculty of Arts, Media, Performance & Design)
The ORUs include the Centre for Feminist Research, the Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages, the Global Labour Research Centre, the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security, the Harriet Tubman Institute, and Sensorium: Centre for Digital Art and Technology.
Community partners include:
1. Migrant Resource Centre Canada
2. Kashe Dance
3. Canadian Caribbean Art Stars Inc.
4. Feminist Alliance for International Action Canada (FAFIA)
5. Nail Salon Workers Project
6. ACORN Canada
7. BC Employment Standards Coalition
8. Global Legal Action Network
9. Black Creek Community Health Centre
10. The Ajumose Mentorship and Oversight Group of Ontario (Tamogo) Foundation
11. Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres
Start Date:
- Month: Sep Year: 2022
End Date:
- Month: Mar Year: 2024
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Summary:
Tri-Council of Research Canada, New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) – 2021 Innovative Approaches to Research in the Pandemic Context. Co-PIs Heidi Matthews (Osgoode Hall Law School); and Yuzhi Joel Ong (School of Arts, Media, Performance & Design), York U.
Start Date:
- Month: Dec Year: 2022
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Summary:
“COVID 19: Building Economic Inclusion and Food Justice” is a two-year community-based project co-led by Luann Good Gingrich (York University), Collaborator Omar Khan (Engaged Communities), and The Neighbourhood Organization (TNO). This collaborative project aims to document and mitigate the immediate and long-term “viral inequality” of the pandemic. The specific objectives are: 1) to understand and chronicle experiences of economic insecurity and food insecurity, and the relationship between them, since the onset of COVID-19, with the intent of establishing a robust base of evidence to inform further development of food justice and inclusive economic development initiatives in Flemingdon Park and Thorncliffe Park; 2) to evaluate the TNO Food Collaborative and other COVID-19 emergency food delivery services initiated to address immediate food security and health concerns; 3) to collaborate with community organizations, local businesses and farmers, and municipal staff to share information related to resources, data, needs, and initiatives related to food security; and 4) to engage in an assessment of community-level resources in order to build an inventory of individual and collective skills, interests, experience, and education in support of refining and expanding community food justice initiatives in the face of COVID-19, and beyond.
Start Date:
- Month: Jan Year: 2020
End Date:
- Month: Dec Year: 2022
Collaborator: Darcy MacCallum, TNO; Omar Khan, Engaged Communities
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Summary:
Long title: Advancing social inclusion in Canada’s diverse communities: Neighbourhood, regional, and national comparisons
Start Date:
- Month: Apr Year: 2015
End Date:
- Month: Mar Year: 2022
Enns, T., Good Gingrich, L., & Perez, K. (2020). Religious Heritage, Institutionalized Ethos, and Synergies: Mennonite Central Committee and Canada’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program. In Labman, S. & Cameron, G. (Eds.), Strangers to Neighbours: Refugee Sponsorship in Context , pp. 95-111. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press.
Good Gingrich, L. & S. Köngeter. (2017). Social exclusion and social welfare: Within, across and in between nation-state boundaries. In Good Gingrich, L. & S. Köngeter. (Eds.). Transnational social policy – Social welfare in a world on the move (pp. 265-286). London; New York: Routledge.
Young, J., L. Good Gingrich, A. Wiebe, & M. Harder. (2017). Tactical borderwork: Central American migrant women negotiating the southern border of Mexico. In Good Gingrich, L. & S. Köngeter. (Eds.). Transnational social policy – Social welfare in a world on the move (pp. 200-221). London; New York: Routledge.
Swift, K., L. Good Gingrich & M. Brown. (2016). Social work education: The challenge of neoliberalism (Chapter 33). In Taylor, I., M. Bogo, M. Lefevre & B. Teater (Eds.). International Handbook of Social Work Education (pp. 382-393). London; New York: Routledge.
Good Gingrich, L. (2011) . Negotiating double binds of in-between: A gendered perspective of formal and informal social supports in transnationality. In A. Chambon, W. Schroer & C. Schweppe (Eds.), Transnational social support (pp. 89-107). New York: Taylor & Francis/Routledge.
Good Gingrich, L. (2003) . Theorizing social exclusion: Determinants, mechanisms, dimensions, forms, and acts of resistance. In W. Shera (Ed.), Emerging perspectives on anti-oppressive practice (pp. 3-23). Toronto: Canadian Scholar’s Press, Inc./Women’s Press.
Good Gingrich, L. & Enns, T. (2019). A reflexive view of refugee integration and inclusion: A case study of Mennonite Central Committee and the Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees/revue canadienne sur les réfugiés 35(2), 9-23.
Good Gingrich, L. & J. E. E. Young. (2019). Borders for profit: Transnational social exclusion and the production of the NAFTA border. International Journal of Migration and Border Studies 5(1/2), 64-81.
Lightman, N. & L. Good Gingrich. (2018) . Measuring economic exclusion for racialized minorities, immigrants and women in Canada: Results from 2000 and 2010. Journal of Poverty. Published on-line May 7, 2018. DOI: 10.1080/10875549.2018.1460736
Köngeter, S. & L. Good Gingrich. (2017). Cultivating cultures of inclusion in social service organizations: An international collaboration. Transnational Social Review 7(3), 325-330. DOI: 10.1080/21931674.2017.1361149.
Good Gingrich, L. (2017). More thoughts on reflexivity. In “Bourdieu in Plain Anabaptist Studies? A Symposium Review of Out of place: Social exclusion and Mennonite migrants in Canada”.
Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies 5(2), 265-269.
Good Gingrich, L. & Lightman, N. (2015) . The empirical measurement of a theoretical concept: Tracing social exclusion among racial minority and migrant groups in Canada. Social Inclusion 3(4), 98-111.
Good Gingrich, L. (2014) . Protecting cultural heritage in the context of migratory livelihoods. International Migration 52, 1-20.
Lightman, N. & Good Gingrich, L. (2012) . The intersecting dynamics of social exclusion: Age, gender, race and immigrant status in Canada’s labour market. Canadian Ethnic Studies 44(3), 121-145.
Good Gingrich, L. (2010) . The symbolic economy of trans-border governance: A case study of subjective exclusion and migrant women from Mexico. Refugee Survey Quarterly, 29(1), 161-184.
Good Gingrich, L. & Preibsch, K. (2010) . Migration as preservation and loss: The paradox of transnational living for Low German Mennonite women. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 36(9), 1499-1518.
Good Gingrich, L. (2010) . Single mothers, work(fare), and managed precariousness. Journal of Progressive Human Services 21(2), 107-135.
Good Gingrich, L. (2008) . Social exclusion and double jeopardy – The management of lone mothers in the market-state social field. Social Policy and Administration, 42, 379-395.
Good Gingrich, L. & Lightman, E. (2006) . Striving toward self-sufficiency: A qualitative study of mutual aid in an Old Order Mennonite community. Family Relations, 55, 175-189.
Good Gingrich, L. & Lightman, E. (2004) . Mediating communities and cultures: A case study of informal helpers in an Old Order Mennonite community. Families in Society, 85(4), 511-520.
Good Gingrich, L. (2003) . Social exclusion as an individual kind – A categorical point of view. Canadian Review of Social Policy, 52 (Fall/Winter), 93-115.
Good Gingrich, L. (2003) . Constructing identity and drawing lines: The textual work of Ontario’s Safe Streets Act. Journal of Canadian Studies, 37(4), 151-170.
Lightman, N. and Good Gingrich, L. May 2015. The dynamics of economic exclusion for immigrants and racialized minorities in Canada: A multilevel model analysis. Congrès international sur l’Immigration, l’Intégration et l’Inclusion/International Conference on Immigration, Integration and Inclusion, Québec City, Canada.
Young, J., Good Gingrich, L., Wiebe, A., Harder, M. July 2014. The ‘choice’ of necessity: Central American migrant women negotiating the southern border of Mexico. International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, Bogotá, Colombia.
Good Gingrich, L. and Fast, K. May 2014. Mennonite women at home on the edge? A consideration of counter cultural and religious dispositions. Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Toronto, Ontario.
Good Gingrich, L., Young, J., Wiebe, A., Harder, M. April 2014. The double binds of borderwork: Migrant women in southern Mexico. Association for Borderland Studies, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Lightman, N. and Good Gingrich, L. March 2014. The exclusionary dynamics of data collection: Exploring non-response rates among immigrant and racialized groups through the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics. 16th National Metropolis Conference, Partnering for Success: Facilitating Integration and Inclusion Gatineau, Quebec.
Good Gingrich, L. and Lightman, N. October 2013. Exploring economic exclusion trajectories of visible minorities and immigrants in Canada: A Multilevel Model using the 2005-2010 Panel of the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics. Canadian Research Data Centre Network Conference, Waterloo, Ontario.
Good Gingrich, L. and Swift, K. June 2013. Anti-oppressive social work education: A project of the privileged? Canadian Association for Social Work Education - l’Association Canadienne pour la formation en travail social (CASWE-ACFTS). University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia.
Good Gingrich, L. May 2013. Perspectives on social exclusion and basic income. The 12th Annual North America Basic Income Guarantee Congress. New York City, New York.
Good Gingrich, L. and Preibisch, K. May 2013. Permanently temporary, perpetually precarious: Migrant workers in Canada’s food industry. The 2013 Conference of the Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement. Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario.
Lightman, N. and Good Gingrich, L. May 2013. Dynamics of race, ethnicity, and nationality in Canada’s labour market: Application of an Economic Exclusion Index. 7th Annual International Conference on Sociology, Athens, Greece.
Lightman, N., Good Gingrich, L. and Mitchell, A. April 2013. The dynamics of economic exclusion for immigrants and racialised groups in Canada. Conference on “Migration: Global Development, New Frontiers” organized by NORFACE Research Programme on Migration and the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM). University College London, U.K.
Chambon, A.; Schröer, W.; Good Gingrich, L; Wang, F.; Lightman, E.; Schweppe, C.; Köngeter, S.; Olivier, C. March 2013. Symposium entitled Transnational social support: Care, social policy and history in a transnational world. The 3rd European Conference for Social Work Research. University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Good Gingrich, L. March 2013. Organizer and moderator for Workshop entitled The dynamics of social exclusion for immigrants and racialised groups in Canada. 15th National Metropolis Conference, “Building an Integrated Society”. Ottawa, Ontario.
Lightman, N. and Good Gingrich, L. March 2013. Growing divides for Canada’s immigrant and racialized communities: Applying an Economic Exclusion Index, 1996-2010. 15th National Metropolis Conference, “Building an Integrated Society”. Ottawa, Ontario.
Good Gingrich, L. and Lightman, N. March 2013. A quantitative examination of economic exclusion/inclusion trajectories for immigrants and refugees using secondary data. 6th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS). St. Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Lightman, N. & Good Gingrich, L. March 2012. The intersecting dynamics of social exclusion: Age, gender, race and immigrant status in Canada’s labour force. The 14th National Metropolis Conference. Toronto, Ontario.
Lightman, N. & Good Gingrich, L. October 2012. Applying an Economic Exclusion Index: Trends and dynamics for immigrants and racialized groups in Canada. Canadian Research Data Centre Network Conference. Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Preibisch, K. and Good Gingrich, L. December 2012. Temporary migration programs and forced labour in Canada’s food industry. Conference on “Vulnerable Workers, Forced Labour, Migration and Ethical Trading”. University of Leeds, United Kingdom.
Good Gingrich, L. October 2010. “Choice,” social inclusion, and transnational livelihoods. Latin American Studies Association Confernece. Toronto, Ontario.
Kimber, M. & Good Gingrich, L. October 2009. Localizing crime and mental illness in a global agenda: Policy analysis for practical change. 15th Annual Qualitative Health Research Conference, International Institute for Qualitative Methodology. Vancouver, British Columbia.
Good Gingrich, L. May 2009. Redefining and defending family in transnationality. German-Canadian Symposium on Transnational Social Support. University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Good Gingrich, L. June 2009. Social exclusion, trans-border regulation, and migrant women from Mexico. 12th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM 12). University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Good Gingrich, L. June, 2008. Double jeopardy, social exclusion, and lone mothers in the market-state social field. Panel entitled “Approaches to Economic Security in Canada: Challenges, Possibilities, and Strategies”. Congress of the Basic Income Earth Network. Quinn Business School in University College, Dublin, Ireland.
Good Gingrich, L. June, 2008. Double jeopardy, social exclusion, and lone mothers in the market-state social field. Panel entitled “Approaches to Economic Security in Canada: Challenges, Possibilities, and Strategies”. Congress of the Basic Income Earth Network. Quinn Business School in University College, Dublin, Ireland.
Good Gingrich, L. March, 2008. The management of lone mothers – Workfare, precarious lives, and double jeopardy. Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis, Missouri.
Good Gingrich, L. & Preibisch, K. November, 2007. Women entredeux the sacred and the secular. “Women, religion, and development”, Conference of the Joint Chair in Women’s Studies, University of Ottawa and Carleton University. Ottawa, Ontario.
Good Gingrich, L. November, 2006. The commodification of human rights. Conference of the American Public Health Association. Boston, MA.
Good Gingrich, L. June, 2006. Migration, fieldwork, and survival. International Association for the Study of Forced Migration 10th Biennial Conference. York University, Toronto, Ontario.
Good Gingrich, L. May, 2006. Forced migration, confrontation, and women’s work. Conference on Women, Immigration, Transnational Migration and Public Policy sponsored by the Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies for the Maritimes and the Feminist Public Policy Project. Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Good Gingrich, L. October, 2005. Contradiction, confrontation, and meanings of work. 10th International Karl Polanyi Conference, Social Policy Forum sponsored by the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy. Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Good Gingrich, L. June, 2005. Acculturating social inclusion. Multicultural Days – An International Perspective. Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario.
Good Gingrich, L. February, 2005. Women’s work. Conference of the Association for Research on Mothering. York University, Toronto, Ontario.
Good Gingrich. (2019). Refugee Newcomer Sponsorship and Social Inclusion: A Learning Resource. Kitchener, ON: Mennonite Central Committee Ontario.
Good Gingrich, L. and Snyder, P. (1997) . A mother’s garden – Planting seeds of hope. A learning resource. A Peer Nutrition Workers’ Training Manual. Published by Oracle Design Group, Waterloo, Ontario.
October 2014. (With Young, J., Wiebe, A., Harder, M.) The ‘choice’ of necessity: Central American migrant women negotiating the southern border of Mexico. Migration Matters: Precarious Pathways to Migration, York University.
May 2010. Guest lecture: Gender, social exclusion, and transborder regulation. Social Policy Research Centre, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
May 2010. Women’s care work: The feminization, criminalization, and commodification of forced migration. 2010 International Symposium on Transnational Organization of Care. National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
January 2009. Women and migration: Reflections on a learning tour with Mennonite Central Committee. Presentation for the Plautdietsch (Low German) radio station De Brigj, Aylmer, Ontario.
January, 2008. Women entredeux the sacred and the secular: A consideration of gender, religion and transnational livelihoods. Social Work Brown Bag Research Seminar, School of Social Work, York University.
June, 2008. (With K. Preibisch and M. Peters.) Understanding the effects of migration on Low German Mennonite women and their families. Annual Networking Day for Professional Service Providers of Low German Mennonite Families, Aylmer, Ontario.
April, 2007. The management of lone mothers – Precarious work, commodified meaning, and “fighting back”. Social Work Annual Research Symposium. York University, Toronto, Ontario.
June, 2006. Understanding expressions of self-imposed social exclusion. Annual Networking Day for Professional Service Providers of Low German Families, Aylmer, Ontario.
June, 2004. Social exclusion of Low German families: Theory and its realities.
Good Gingrich, L. & Köngeter, S. (Eds.) (in press) . Transnational social policy – Social welfare in a world on the move. Routledge. (Forthcoming in early 2017.)
Luann Good Gingrich is a Professor in the School of Social Work, and Academic Director of the Research Commons at York University. Using an approach to critical analysis of social systems based in Reflexive Sociology (Bourdieu), Popular Education (Freire), Institutional Ethnography (Smith) and Community-Based Research, her research aims to describe and measure the processes and outcomes of social exclusion and inclusion. Her work zeros in on the interface of ideology (or worldview), material and symbolic inequality, migration and displacement, and social welfare and human services. She integrates theory development, community-engaged research, secondary quantitative data analysis and critical pedagogy to inspire imaginations and strategies for social inclusion through inter-personal change, place change, and system change. She applies her theoretical and empirical work to the development of approaches to research, social policy and practice that lead from inequality to just relationships, from structural violence to social healing, and from competition and conflict to collaboration and shared responsibility.
Good Gingrich is a member of the editorial board for the International Journal of Migration and Border Studies.
The complex relationships between the state, “mainstream” society, and culturally and religiously distinct communities have been central in Good Gingrich's professional practice and academic work. Her earlier research traced official policies and practices to the everyday lives of migrant groups in Canada (temporary migrant workers, Mennonite migrants from Mexico) and Central American migrant women in southern Mexico. Her analyses have demonstrated the paradoxical outcomes of marketized social policies and human services, as they function to make and organize social groups defined by race, ethnicity, nation, class, religion, and gender. In the past decade, Good Gingrich has extended her program of research to examine the dynamics of social exclusion and inclusion in transnational and local contexts. Specifically:
