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Samuel Lina, Assistant Professor

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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