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After coming to York University in [[Toronto]], Ontario, Canada as a professor, Giles began working in York's Centre for Refugee Studies and Anthropology Department.<ref name = "crs bio">{{cite web |title=Wenona Giles Academic Director |url=https://crs.yorku.ca/summer/profiles/wenona-giles/ |website=crs.yorku.ca |accessdate=April 18, 2019}}</ref> In 1993, Giles coordinated the Women in Conflict Zones Research Network with the Centre for Refugee Studies<ref name = "crs bio"/> and subsequently published "''Maid in the Market: Women’s Paid Domestic Labour''" the following year.<ref>{{cite |
After coming to York University in [[Toronto]], Ontario, Canada as a professor, Giles began working in York's Centre for Refugee Studies and Anthropology Department.<ref name = "crs bio">{{cite web |title=Wenona Giles Academic Director |url=https://crs.yorku.ca/summer/profiles/wenona-giles/ |website=crs.yorku.ca |accessdate=April 18, 2019}}</ref> In 1993, Giles coordinated the Women in Conflict Zones Research Network with the Centre for Refugee Studies<ref name = "crs bio"/> and subsequently published "''Maid in the Market: Women’s Paid Domestic Labour''" the following year.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Patricia M. Daenzer |title=JOURNAL ARTICLE Review |journal=Le Travail |date=1997 |volume=40 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25144214?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=%22Maid+in+the+Market%3A+Women%27s+Paid+Domestic+Labour%22&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3D%2522Maid%2Bin%2Bthe%2BMarket%253A%2BWomen%25E2%2580%2599s%2BPaid%2BDomestic%2BLabour%26amp%3Bfilter%3D&ab_segments=0%2Fdefault-2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=search%3A3e385fd0a5874ac92a75ebd609b581e6&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents |accessdate=April 28, 2019 |publisher=Athabasca University Press}}</ref> She worked as coordinator of the Women in Conflict Zones Research Network until 2004.<ref name = "crs bio"/> That same year, she published a book titled "''Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones.''" The book composed of essays using a feminist lens to understand how conflict and war were gendered and racialized.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Indra |first1=Doreen |title=JOURNAL ARTICLE Review |journal=Anthropological Quarterly |date=2005 |volume=78 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4150845?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=Sites&searchText=of&searchText=Violence%3A&searchText=Gender&searchText=and&searchText=Conflict&searchText=Zones&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DSites%2Bof%2BViolence%253A%2BGender%2Band%2BConflict%2BZones&ab_segments=0%2Fdefault-2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=search%3Aec92487ca4d0b8fee5810faeb16ff5cc&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents |accessdate=April 28, 2019 |publisher=The George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones |url=http://wgiles.info.yorku.ca/sites-of-violence-gender-and-conflict-zones/ |website=wgiles.info.yorku.ca |accessdate=April 18, 2019 |date=December 4, 2018}}</ref> |
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From 2005 to 2008, Giles was a principal investigator for a [[Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council]] (SSHRC) funded project titled "''The Globalization of Homelessness in Long-Term Refugee Camps.''" She then began a six year investigation into "'''A Canadian Refugee Research Network: Globalizing Knowledge.''"<ref>{{cite web |title=Research |url=http://wgiles.info.yorku.ca/research/ |website=wgiles.info.yorku.ca |accessdate=April 18, 2019}}</ref> |
From 2005 to 2008, Giles was a principal investigator for a [[Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council]] (SSHRC) funded project titled "''The Globalization of Homelessness in Long-Term Refugee Camps.''" She then began a six year investigation into "'''A Canadian Refugee Research Network: Globalizing Knowledge.''"<ref>{{cite web |title=Research |url=http://wgiles.info.yorku.ca/research/ |website=wgiles.info.yorku.ca |accessdate=April 18, 2019}}</ref> |
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In 2015, with the assistance of Don Dippo and York’s Centre for Refugee Studies, Giles helped launch the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) project. In October 2015, 59 people in a [[Dadaab]] refugee camp earned a York University Certificate of Completion in Educational Studies.<ref>{{cite web |title=Students in Dadaab refugee camps first to graduate with York U certificate |url=https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2015/10/20/students-in-dadaab-refugee-camps-first-to-graduate-with-york-u-certificat/ |website=yfile.news.yorku.ca |accessdate=April 18, 2019 |date=October 20, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Lynn Desjardins |title=Canadian university graduates Somali refugees |url=http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2015/10/19/canadian-university-graduates-somali-refugees/ |website=rcinet.ca |accessdate=April 18, 2019 |date=October 19, 2015}}</ref> |
In 2015, with the assistance of Don Dippo and York’s Centre for Refugee Studies, Giles helped launch the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) project. In October 2015, 59 people in a [[Dadaab]] refugee camp earned a York University Certificate of Completion in Educational Studies.<ref>{{cite web |title=Students in Dadaab refugee camps first to graduate with York U certificate |url=https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2015/10/20/students-in-dadaab-refugee-camps-first-to-graduate-with-york-u-certificat/ |website=yfile.news.yorku.ca |accessdate=April 18, 2019 |date=October 20, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Lynn Desjardins |title=Canadian university graduates Somali refugees |url=http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2015/10/19/canadian-university-graduates-somali-refugees/ |website=rcinet.ca |accessdate=April 18, 2019 |date=October 19, 2015}}</ref> |
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In 2016, Giles co-authored a book with Jennifer Hynde titled "''Refugees in Extended Exile: Living on the Edge.''" The book was critical of contemporary humanitarian aid efforts and the vulnerable status of refugees.<ref>{{cite web |title=Refugees in Extended Exile |url=https://www. |
In 2016, Giles co-authored a book with Jennifer Hynde titled "''Refugees in Extended Exile: Living on the Edge.''" The book was critical of contemporary humanitarian aid efforts and the vulnerable status of refugees.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Grayson |first1=Catherine-Lune |title=Book review: Refugees in Extended Exile: Living on the Edge |url=https://www.icrc.org/en/international-review/article/refugees-extended-exile-living-edge |website=icrc.org |accessdate=April 28, 2019 |date=May 7, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Prof. Wenona Giles co-authors new book on Refugees |url=http://anth.laps.yorku.ca/2016/10/prof-wenona-giles-co-authors-new-book-on-refugees/ |website=anth.laps.yorku.ca |accessdate=April 18, 2019 |date=October 12, 2016}}</ref> Besides refugees, Giles has also focused her research on the lives of Canadian Portuguese women. In 2017, she donated her research conducted in the 1980s to the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections at the York University Libraries.<ref>{{cite web |title=New archival donation by Anthropologist Wenona Giles to Clara Thomas Archives |url=https://pchp-phlc.ca/2017/09/15/new-archival-donation-by-anthropologist-wenona-giles-to-clara-thomas-archives/ |website=pchp-phlc.ca |accessdate=April 18, 2019 |date=September 15, 2017}}</ref> |
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Giles retired from York University in October 2018 but still worked as a Research Associate in the Centre for Refugee Studies.<ref>{{cite web |title=About |url=http://wgiles.info.yorku.ca/about/ |website=wgiles.info.yorku.ca |accessdate=April 19, 2019}}</ref> A month after her retirement, she was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada]].<ref>{{cite web |title=CRS Professor Wenona Giles Invited to Join Royal Society of Canada |url=https://crs.info.yorku.ca/crs-professor-wenona-giles-invited-to-join-royal-society-of-canada |website=crs.info.yorku.ca |accessdate=April 18, 2019}}</ref> |
Giles retired from York University in October 2018 but still worked as a Research Associate in the Centre for Refugee Studies.<ref>{{cite web |title=About |url=http://wgiles.info.yorku.ca/about/ |website=wgiles.info.yorku.ca |accessdate=April 19, 2019}}</ref> A month after her retirement, she was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada]].<ref>{{cite web |title=CRS Professor Wenona Giles Invited to Join Royal Society of Canada |url=https://crs.info.yorku.ca/crs-professor-wenona-giles-invited-to-join-royal-society-of-canada |website=crs.info.yorku.ca |accessdate=April 18, 2019}}</ref> |
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Professor Wenona Giles | |
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Born | Iran |
Citizenship | UK Canadian |
Academic background | |
Education | B.A., English and French Literature, Santa Clara University M.A., PhD, Anthropology, University of Toronto |
Thesis | Motherhood and Wage Labour in London: Portuguese Migrant Women and the Politics of Gender (1987) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Gender Migration |
Sub-discipline | forced migration, globalization, nationalism and war |
Institutions | York University |
Wenona Mary Giles FRSC is a professor emerita in the Department of Anthropology at York University. In 2018, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Through the university, Giles helped launch the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) project which allowed people in refugee camps to earn a York University Certificate of Completion in Educational Studies.
Early life and education
Although she was born in Iran, Giles holds both UK and Canadian citizenship.[1]
After earning her Bachelor of Arts at Santa Clara University in 1971, Giles earned her Master's degree and PhD in Anthropology at the University of Toronto.[2] Her dissertation was titled "Motherhood and Wage Labour in London: Portuguese Migrant Women and the Politics of Gender."[3]
Career
After coming to York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada as a professor, Giles began working in York's Centre for Refugee Studies and Anthropology Department.[4] In 1993, Giles coordinated the Women in Conflict Zones Research Network with the Centre for Refugee Studies[4] and subsequently published "Maid in the Market: Women’s Paid Domestic Labour" the following year.[5] She worked as coordinator of the Women in Conflict Zones Research Network until 2004.[4] That same year, she published a book titled "Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones." The book composed of essays using a feminist lens to understand how conflict and war were gendered and racialized.[6][7]
From 2005 to 2008, Giles was a principal investigator for a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded project titled "The Globalization of Homelessness in Long-Term Refugee Camps." She then began a six year investigation into "'A Canadian Refugee Research Network: Globalizing Knowledge."[8]
Giles and fellow York professor Jennifer Hyndman began a project titled “The Globalization of Protracted Refugee Situations” (GPRS) initiative.[9] The goal of this initiative was to help ease those in long-term refugee situations. After consulting the results of the GPRS, Giles began constructing the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) project with Don Dippo in 2013 through the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University.[10] Through this project, people in refugee camps could earn a York University Certificate of Completion in Educational Studies. In February 2013, the Canadian International Development Agency granted them more than $4.5 million over a five year period to help launch BHER.[11] The following month, Giles was recognized by York University as a research leader at the 2013 Research Gala.[12]
In 2015, with the assistance of Don Dippo and York’s Centre for Refugee Studies, Giles helped launch the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) project. In October 2015, 59 people in a Dadaab refugee camp earned a York University Certificate of Completion in Educational Studies.[13][14]
In 2016, Giles co-authored a book with Jennifer Hynde titled "Refugees in Extended Exile: Living on the Edge." The book was critical of contemporary humanitarian aid efforts and the vulnerable status of refugees.[15][16] Besides refugees, Giles has also focused her research on the lives of Canadian Portuguese women. In 2017, she donated her research conducted in the 1980s to the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections at the York University Libraries.[17]
Giles retired from York University in October 2018 but still worked as a Research Associate in the Centre for Refugee Studies.[18] A month after her retirement, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[19]
Publications
The following is a list of publications:[20]
- Clean jobs, dirty jobs: ethnicity, social reproduction and gendered identity (1993)
- Maid in the Market: Women's Paid Domestic Labour (1994)
- Development & Diaspora: Gender and the Refugee Experience with Helene Moussa and Penny Van Esterik (1996)
- Portuguese Women in Toronto: Gender, Immigration, and Nationalism (2002)
- Feminists Under Fire: Exchanges Across War Zones editor (2003)
- Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones with Jennifer Hyndman (2004)
- Portuguese Women in Toronto: Gender (2012)
- When care goes global: locating the social relations of domestic work (2014)
- Refugees in Extended Exile: Living on the Edge with Jennifer Hyndman (2017)
References
- ^ "WGiles". wgiles.info.yorku.ca. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae Wenona Giles". wgiles.info.yorku.ca. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
- ^ "PhD Degrees Conferred". anthropology.utoronto.ca. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
- ^ a b c "Wenona Giles Academic Director". crs.yorku.ca. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
- ^ Patricia M. Daenzer (1997). "JOURNAL ARTICLE Review". Le Travail. 40. Athabasca University Press. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
- ^ Indra, Doreen (2005). "JOURNAL ARTICLE Review". Anthropological Quarterly. 78. The George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
- ^ "Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones". wgiles.info.yorku.ca. December 4, 2018. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
- ^ "Research". wgiles.info.yorku.ca. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
- ^ "Research Team". yorku.ca. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
- ^ "History". bher.org. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
- ^ "York receives $6.2 million from CIDA for international research projects". yfile.news.yorku.ca. February 4, 2013. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
- ^ "York's inaugural Research Gala recognizes excellence". yfile.news.yorku.ca. March 5, 2013. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
- ^ "Students in Dadaab refugee camps first to graduate with York U certificate". yfile.news.yorku.ca. October 20, 2015. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
- ^ Lynn Desjardins (October 19, 2015). "Canadian university graduates Somali refugees". rcinet.ca. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
- ^ Grayson, Catherine-Lune (May 7, 2018). "Book review: Refugees in Extended Exile: Living on the Edge". icrc.org. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
- ^ "Prof. Wenona Giles co-authors new book on Refugees". anth.laps.yorku.ca. October 12, 2016. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
- ^ "New archival donation by Anthropologist Wenona Giles to Clara Thomas Archives". pchp-phlc.ca. September 15, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
- ^ "About". wgiles.info.yorku.ca. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
- ^ "CRS Professor Wenona Giles Invited to Join Royal Society of Canada". crs.info.yorku.ca. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
- ^ "au:Giles, Wenona". worldcat.org. Retrieved April 18, 2019.