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Case Study Six: Jobs-skills Mismatch and Precarious Employment Faced by Racialized Newcomer Women in Toronto
Case Study Six: Jobs-skills Mismatch and Precarious Employment Faced by Racialized Newcomer Women in Toronto
Project Leaders: Yogendra Shakya (Access Alliance) and Charlotte Yates (McMaster)
Student Researchers:
Community Researchers:
Objective: This project investigates systemic challenges faced by racialized newcomer women in securing stable, full-time employment in their field. In particular, the research will examine the ‘job-skills mismatch’ that racialized newcomer women face when they enter the labour market, and how this pushes them into a long term precarious employment trajectory. The research findings will generate evidence about the racialized and gendered dimensions of the ‘flexibilization’ of the labour market.
Key Research Activities and Methodologies: It will use qualitative methods consisting of focus groups and interviews with racialized newcomer women with direct experience of protracted precarious employment. 50 individuals will be interviewed. The project will be guided by community-based research (CBR) practices as a way to (1) make the research process more inclusive (it will involve several racialized newcomer women to work as co-researchers at all stages of the project); (2) enrich the quality and rigor of the data (through better recruitment and community validation process); and (3) deepen the knowledge exchange/transfer process.
