Visiting Scholars

Monica Boyd, the Canada Research Chair in Immigration, Inequality and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, will visit Winter, 2010. Author of publications, her current research focuses on immigrant inequality in the labor force, the migration of high skilled labor and related re-accreditation difficulties, the social construction of ethnicity, and the socio-economic achievements of immigrant offspring. She holds a research grant from the (Canadian) Social Science and Humanities Research Council on language proficiency and the economic incorporation of immigrants. Boyd is President, Academy II (Social Sciences) of the National Academy, the Royal Society of Canada; President, Canadian Sociological Association; and a long-time member of the National Statistics Council.