McGill University

Giovani Burgos: how the life chances of individuals are structured along the lines of race and ethnicity? One of the most persistent problematic in the social sciences is understanding why some racial and ethnic minorities tend to fare worse in the labor market, have lower academic achievement, and lower levels of physical and mental health than their White counterparts in the «lands of opportunity»? Drawing on work in the areas of criminology, race relations, stratification, and medical sociology, my primary research and teaching interests focus on exploring the impact that income inequality, segregation/racism, and discrimination have on the health of youth of color in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. Currently, I’m exploring how these structural conditions at the neighborhood and school levels impact the physical/mental health of Latino youth and their families in a multi-level context. I’m also examining how these structural conditions affect the mental health of recent immigrants.

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John A. Hall: nationalism and state education systems, the social background of the Bolsheviks, Islamic sects in modern Turkey, and nationalism in Quebec and Scotland. National Identity and the Varieties of Capitalism: The Danish Experience. The State of the Nation: Ernest Gellner and the Theory of Nationalism. ‘Structural Approaches to Nations and Nationalism.

http://www.mcgill.ca/sociology/faculty/hall/

Morton Weinfeld: Ethnic and race relations; immigration; public policy analysis; survey research and data analysis; Canadian society; sociology of Jews; Canadian Jewish studies; sociology of education. The Integration of Jewish Immigrants in Montreal: Models and Dilemmas of Ethnic Match. till Moving: Recent Jewish Migration in Comparative Perspective. Like Everyone else, but Different.

http://www.mcgill.ca/sociology/faculty/weinfeld/

Marc (Marcos) Ancelovici: research focuses on social movements and the political sociology of globalization. He has carried out field research in France, the US, the UK, Chile, Brazil, and Quebec, on topics as varied as labor responses to globalization, firm localization in the textile, electronics, and publishing industries, transition to democracy, drug dealing in shantytowns, and cultural identity. He’s currently completing a project on the way labor organizations adjust and respond to globalization in France and beginning two new projects. The first one analyzes the apparent decline of the antiglobalization movement in France. The second one studies civil society campaigns to regulate the global economy; more particularly, it asks why such campaigns emerge and grow in some industries rather than others; this project will address this issue through a comparison of campaigns in the apparel and the consumer electronics industries.

http://www.mcgill.ca/sociology/faculty/ancelovici/