Daniela Ugarte Villalobos is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her research explores how migration impacts gender and unpaid care relationships in families that migrate within the Latin American region. She is particularly interested in qualitative methods. Prior to joining the University of Toronto, Daniela was a Fulbright Fellowship recipient, earning her MA in Sociology from SUNY at Albany. Currently, Daniela works as a research assistant at the Centre for Global Social Policy in the Care Economy in Context project.
She is the lead RA for the portion of the project that involves qualitative interviews of unpaid caregivers of persons with disabilities and paid caregivers.