Christine Hughes
Christine Hughes is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology with a specialization in Political Economy. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario and an M.A. in International Development Studies from Dalhousie University. Her primary research interests fall into the areas of temporary labour migration, and gender and migration. Within temporary labour migration, she specifically researches Guatemalans’ participation in the low skill pilot project, part of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. Christine has also participated in a research project examining the engagement of civil society actors in advocating for the rights of temporary migrant workers. With respect to gender and migration, she is assessing the gendered impacts at the household level of circular, seasonal migration and related processes of transnationalism, and also experiences of gendered violence by female migrant farmworkers. Her secondary research interests include immigration and municipal policy development, and the influences of migration andimmigration on sending country development. Christine’s overall theoretical focus is on explaining social change.