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Patricia Landolt is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on systems of social exclusion and inequality related to global migrations, with specific expertise in refugee-migrant political incorporation, precarious work, non-citizenship, and legal status precarity. She joined the department in 2001 after earning her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.
- Education: Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Her work interrogates the Ontario public education system's role in regulating access for precarious status migrants, emphasizing school board workers, community advocates, and legal aid actors in boundary negotiations. She also explores transnationalism, ethnicity, racialization, and qualitative methods.
Research Trends: Her recent publications (2019-2025) analyze legal status precarity, sanctuary city politics, migrant healthcare access, pandemic vulnerabilities, and settler colonial narratives. These works employ frameworks like transnational social fields, methodological de-nationalism, and assemblage theory.
Teaching Interests: Include international migration, immigrant incorporation, transnationalism, ethnicity, and qualitative methods.
