Recording of “Connecting Through Care” now live

On February 12, 2025, Ph.D. student and Registered Social Worker Izumi Niki presented Connecting Through Care: Navigating Systemic Challenges and Exploring Immigrant Identities in Ethnocultural Care in Canada. This talk was the second in the Care Economies in Context speaker series.

Care, whether paid or unpaid, is a form of work that demands a genuine connection with people. This ‘connective labour’ aspect of care is the core of people’s notion of quality of care and inevitably impacts one’s feelings and satisfaction, sometimes positively and sometimes negatively. This also affects a worker’s sense of belonging and commitment to the community, which is more profound than the ’emotional labour’ discussed in care work theory.

Much of Izumi’s research is autoethnographic; she draws on her own experiences as a care provider who has spent years working in ethnocultural care for elders. Her study also explore the profound impact of care work on workers’ identities and sense of self, with a particular emphasis on the experience of marginalized immigrant women in global society.

Izumi’s talk was followed by a rich conversation with participants.

You can watch the recording below or on CGSP’s YouTube channel.