Dr. Alexa Carson is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Global Social Policy. She is a sociologist of aging, family care, and migration, with additional expertise in social policy and qualitative research. She has published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, the Journal of Aging & Social Policy, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Anthropology & Aging.
Alexa’s current projects include research on the impacts of out-of-sequence care events, as well as a dyadic investigation examining how older people and their families conceptualize and make decisions about transitions into long-term care. She is especially interested in how life course events (e.g. transnational migration, unexpected care responsibilities) and social contexts (e.g. socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, gender, disability) shape care experiences.
Alexa has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Toronto (2026). Her SSHRC and OGS funded dissertation was entitled “Looking After our Seniors: How Immigrant and Non-immigrant Families in Canada Experience and Make Sense of Later Life Care.” Among other accolades, she was awarded the 2023 Margaret Clark best graduate student paper prize by the Association for Anthropology, Gerontology and the Life Course (AAGE) and the 2026 Edward Herberg Fellowship from the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto.
Alexa received a BA in Honours History and Political Science from McGill University and an MA in International Development Studies from Dalhousie University. Alexa worked with the Centre for Global Social Policy in various capacities from 2019-2024 and was the Lead Research Assistant for the Canada team with the Care Economies in Context Project from 2022-2024.
Current Projects
Care Economies in Context
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Care Plateaus, Peaks, and Loops: Insights on Stress from Family Carers for Older Adults
5 October 2026
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Ito Peng
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Izumi Niki
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Pelin Gul
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Izumi Niki
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A Pressure Release Valve: South Korean Long-Term Care Policy as Supplemental to Family Elder Care
21 November 2022
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Daniela Ugarte Villalobos
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We Cannot Ignore the Unique Care Needs and Resiliencies of Indigenous Elders and Communities
7 September 2021
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Alexa Carson
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To better support immigrant seniors in Canada, we need to reconceptualize how we see them
19 July 2021
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