Leah Vosko

Broadbent Research Fellow

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Leah F. Vosko, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is Distinguished Research Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Politics, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University. Known internationally for her research on precarious employment, migrant work, and gender and work, she is author of numerous articles, books and policy studies.

Vosko’s three most recent books are Disrupting Deportability: Transnational Workers Organize (ILR Press, Cornell, 2019), Closing the Enforcement Gap: Improving Protections for People in Precarious Jobs (UTP, Vosko et al., 2020), and Transnational Employment Strain in a Global Health Pandemic: Migrant Farmworkers in Canada (Palgrave, Vosko et al., 2023). Her new book, Migrant Work By Another Name: Differential Inclusion and Precarity under Canada’s International Mobility Program, is forthcoming with University of Toronto Press.

Vosko’s current research focuses on employment standards enforcement, deportability among temporary migrant workers, legislation mediating Indigenous peoples’ diverse labour force participation, and international mobility programs in settler colonial contexts. She also provides expert advice to international organizations (e.g., as a member of the International Labour Organization’s Expert Working Group on Temporary Labour Migration) and Parliamentary/Government Standing Committees and Review Panels.