One of these research projects is a documentary play about a Canadian temporary labour migration program that brings (mostly) Filipina domestic workers to Canada to care for Canadian children, elderly and others in need of care. This research creation process was based in layers of collaboration: with migrant organisations, other scholars, and theatre artists in Canada and the Philippines. A second project is a multi-media performance exploring care facilities created for persons from the global north (in particular, Britain, the United States and Switzerland) living with dementia. A third is a writing experiment. Each project, rooted in a desire to improve, raises ethical dilemmas that gesture towards a politics of care within and beyond the academy.

This event is co-funded by the ReloCare ERC Project, the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), and the Amsterdam Research Centre for Migration (ARC-M).

About the speaker

Geraldine Pratt is a Professor of Care Economies and Global Labour and the Head of the Geography Department at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on labour precarity, global migration and new geographies of care.

Prof. Pratt has a long history of working in multiple modalities of inclusive scholarship and co-production of knowledge, including the media of film, art installation, and theatrical performance. She has been conducting collaborative research with migrant organisations on temporary foreign worker programs. Her new projects aim to critically assess new geographies of care for aging persons (including outsourcing and automation) and engage with the topic of housing (in)justice in the face of weather effects/climate change.