Yukiko Tanaka

Yukiko Tanaka is Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream (CLTA) at the University of Toronto. She earned her PhD from U of T in 2023 and held the Postdoctoral Fellowship in Faculty Equity and Solidarity in the Office of the Vice-Principal and Dean at the University of Toronto Scarborough from 2023-24. Her research is broadly in solidarity across lines of race, gender, nationality, and other axes of social differentiation, focusing on the possibilities and limitations of solidarity in institutional spaces such as the immigrant settlement sector and postsecondary education. Her doctoral work investigated how immigrant settlement agencies can act in solidarity with Indigenous communities through an ethnographic case study of an employment program bringing Indigenous and immigrant youth together. She teaches courses in race, ethnicity, migration, and introductory sociology, with a focus on implementing experiential and land-based learning to enhance student learning.

Recent Publications

Tanaka, Yukiko, and Cynthia Cranford. “The Cumulative Disadvantage of Migration, Care and Employment Regimes.” Forthcoming in Social Politics.

Tanaka, Yukiko. 2023. “Healing Toward Interdependency: Building Skills and Resistance Through Immigrant and Indigenous Employment.” Journal of International Migration and Integration 24: 211-229. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12134-022-00941-6

Mazurik, Kathrina, Sarah Knudson, and Yukiko Tanaka. 2020. “Stuck in the Nest? A Review of the Literature on Coresidence in Canada and the United States.” Marriage and Family Review 56(6): 491-512. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01494929.2020.1728005?casa_...