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Professor<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Cati Coe is the Canada Research Chair in Migration and Care and Professor of Political Science at Carleton University. Dr. Coe is an internationally recognized leader in the scholarship of transnational families, aging, and care work, winning awards for her previous books The Scattered Family: Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality <\/em>(2013), The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers <\/em>(2019), and Changes in Care: Aging, Migration and Social Class in West Africa<\/em> (2021). She is known for her careful analysis of how parents\u2019 migration can cause various degrees of rupture in transnational families, her argument that international migration should be studied within the framework of the longer history and broader phenomenon of urban migration, and her leadership in initiating a new focus on children\u2019s experiences within the field of migration studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cati Coe joined the Department of Political Science at Carleton University in 2022, arriving from Rutgers University in the United States, where she worked as a professor of anthropology for twenty years. She is currently researching how transnational migrants navigate national forms of social protection in later life, which includes historical research into the residency requirements of Canadian pensions which limit its transnational portability. From her scholarship on African immigrant care workers in the United States, she has additional research interests in care worker organizing and resistance and the labor involved in end-of-life care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of making her research more broadly available to the public, Dr. Coe has regularly written opinion essays and made two documentary films, \u201cStories from Home Care<\/a>\u201d (2021) based on the narratives of a personal support worker from Ghana working with older adults in the United States, and \u201cMaking Happiness: Older People Organize Themselves<\/a>\u201d (2020) about a social club for older adults in Ghana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Special issue of \u201cOrganizing Domestic Work: The Limits of Regulations in the Wake of the ILO Domestic Workers Convention.<\/a>\u201d Anthropology of Work Review<\/em> 45:2 (2024). Edited with Alana Lee Glaser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAge Enterprising: \u2018Old\u2019 Age on the Make in Ghana<\/a>.\u201d With Alexandra Crampton. Journal of Aging Studies<\/em> 71 (2024). https:\/\/authors.elsevier.com\/c\/1jyhz3AT7iaPdF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhere to Age? Social Protection in Retirement and Return Decisions among Aging Migrants.<\/a>\u201d Academic commentary for special issue \u201cOn Aging Globally,\u201d for the essay section of American Ethnologist<\/em>, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRacialization and Ethnicization of African Caregiving Migrants in the U.S.\u201d In Migration, Ethnicity, and Diversity, <\/em>edited by Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda, pp. 109-123. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Contradictions of Transnational Care: Imaginaries and Materialities of Social Protection in Return to Ghana.\u201d In States of Return: Rethinking Migration and Mobility<\/em>, edited by Deborah Boehm and Mikaela Rogozen-Soltar, pp. 140-161. New York: New York University Press, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Commodification of Care: Does Paying for Elder Care Matter?<\/a>\u201d Anthropology of Work Review<\/em> 45:1 (2024): 5-13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cImages of Care: A Pedagogy of Rosiness about Aging Transitions<\/a>,\u201d with Sheridan Conty (graduate student). Journal of Aging Studies<\/em> 68 (2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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