Samuel Lina, Assistant Professor
Lina Samuel
Assistant Professor
Faculty
Department of Sociology
Biography
My research examines intergenerational cultural retention and the construction of diasporic identities among South Asians in Canada. I completed my PhD at York University in 2008 and my BEd at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (OISE) 2009. I have published my research in a number of books and scholarly journals, including South Asian Diaspora, South Asia Research and the Journal of Intercultural Studies. My current research projects include the challenges of eldercare among immigrants within the South-Asian diaspora in Canada. I teach in the areas of gender, work and occupations, social inequality, family, immigration and race and ethnicity.
Education
2009 Bachelor of Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
2008 Doctor of Philosophy Department of Sociology, York University
1998 Masters of Arts, Sociology and International Development Studies, University of Guelph
1994 Bachelor of Arts, Honors, International Development Studies, Dalhousie University
1992 Bachelor of Arts, Political Science and Anthropology, University of Alberta
Research
Samuel, Lina. 2015. “The Family, Religion, and the Re-territorialization of culture within the South Asian Diaspora” in Guida Mann and Rina Cohen, (eds.), Engendering Transnational Voices: Studies in Family, Work and Identity. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Pp. 193-212
Samuel, Lina. 2013. “Reflections on Arranged Marriage and Dowry Among the Syrian Orthodox Community in the Canadian South Asian Diaspora”. South Asian Diaspora, 5 (1): 91-105
Samuel, Lina. 2013. “Malayalis in the Canadian Diaspora,” in S. George and T.V. Thomas, (eds.), Malayali Diaspora: From Kerala to the Ends of the Earth. New Delhi: Serials Publications. pp.60-74
Samuel, Lina. 2010. “Mating, dating, marriage: Intergenerational Cultural Retention and the Construction of Diasporic Identities Among South Asian Immigrants in Canada.” Journal of Intercultural Studies. 31 (1): 95-110
Samuel, Lina. 2010. “South Asian transnationalism in Canada: Effects on family life.” in Bonnie Halman, (ed.), Family Geographies: The Spatiality of Families and Family life. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp.131-150
Samuel, Lina. 2007. “Women, work and fishing: an examination of the lives of fisherwomen in Kerala, India.” South Asia Research, 27 (2): 205-227