Canada Research Chair in Population, Gender and Development

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Latest Select Publications

Van Nguyen-Marshall, Lisa B. Welch Drummond and Danièle Bélanger (Eds.). 2012. The Reinvention of Distinction: Modernity and the Middle Class in Urban Vietnam. Springer/Singapore National University Press, 173 p.

Magali Barbieri and Danièle Bélanger (Eds.). 2009. Reconfiguring Families and Gender in Contemporary Vietnam. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 444 p.

Bélanger, Danièle and Tran Giang Linh. 2011. The Impact of Transnational Migration on Gender and Marriage in Sending Communities of Vietnam. Current Sociology, 59:1, 59-77.

Bélanger, Danièle, Kayoko Ueno, Khuat Thu Hong and Emiko Ochiai. 2011. From Trainees to Undocumented Workers: Vietnamese Migrant Workers in Japan. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 20:1, 31-53.

Bélanger, Danièle. 2010. “Marriages with Foreign Women in East Asia: Bride Trafficking or Voluntary Migration?” Population and Societies, July-August 2010, no 469, 4 pp. Also published in French: Les Marriages avec des Etrangéres en Asie de l’Est: Traffic de Femmes ou Migration Choisie? Population and Societies, July-August 2010, no 469, 4 pp.

Bélanger, Danièle, Hye-Kyung Lee and Hongzen Wang. 2010. Ethnic Diversity and Statistics in East Asia: ‘Foreign Brides’ Surveys: Ethnic Statistics in Taiwan and South Korea. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 33: 6, 1108-1130, First published on: 08 January 2010 (iFirst).

  
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February 3, 2012  – Danièle Bélanger was an invited speaker at the University of Ottawa. She presented "Weddings and Migration in Asia: the Trafficking of Women for Subjective Agency".

January 20, 2012 – D. Bélanger presented 'Debt, Labor and Mobility: Vietnamese Labor Migrants Bound to East Asia’ at an International workshop entitled The Bonds of Migration: Debt, Interpendence and Mobility. University of Chicago, Paris.

Oct 24-28, 2011 – A world-renowned scholar of migration, Dr. Nicola Piper, from the University of Frieberg was hosted by Danièle Bélanger at Western. During her stay Dr. Piper gave two talks; Geographies of Migration, Geographies of Justice? Feminism, Intersectionality and Rights and Global Governance of Migration and the Migrant Rights Movement.

Oct 18-23, 2011 – Danièle Bélanger presented Marriage Migration and Social Change: Transnationalism from Below at the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population Conference on Marriage migration in a global world held in South Korea.

May - August, 2011– Danièle Bélanger oversaw fieldwork conducted in Leamington, Ontario on undocumented migrant workers from Mexico.  This is a joint research project with co-investigator Dr. Tanya Basok and is funded by CERIS - The Ontario Metropolis Centre.

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May - August, 2011– A new research project on migrant workers was developed by Danièle Bélanger in partnership with two researchers in Quebec (Geneviève Roberge and Maxime Amar). Danièle managed, as well as conducted the fieldwork with the aid of two research assistants.

 

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March, 2012 – Danièle Bélanger will present papers at the MERIS Metropolis conference in Toronto, March 3, as well as on March 17th at the Association of Asian Studies.

March 2012 – Danièle Bélanger will travel to Vietnam to present a report to NGO's and government officials. The report, 'Closing the Gender Gap in Vietnam? An Analysis Based on the Vietnam Census, 1989, 1999 and 2009', was created with the assistance of statisticians from the General Statistics office in Hanoi, Vietnam and Thi Van Nguyen and Linh Giang Tran from the Institute for Social Development Studies in Vietnam.