Dr. Lisa Kaida is a sociologist/ social demographer specializing in the social and economic integration of immigrants and refugees. Using nationally-representative survey and administrative data, she studies what help/ hinder immigrants’ and refugees’ integration in the host country like Canada. She has published sole- and co-authored articles (with Monica Boyd, Feng Hou, Max Stick, Liam Swiss, etc.) in Demography, Social Science Research, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Population, Space and Place, Journal of International Migration and Integration, etc.
Professor Kaida’s research also entails work and occupations, sports, aging, and urban studies. With collaborators (David Chafe, Peter Kitchen, Howard Ramos, Diana Singh, etc.), she has published articles in Work, Employment and Society, City & Community, International Review for the Sociology of Sports, and Canadian Studies in Population.
Lisa is currently an Associate Professor of Sociology at McMaster University in Canada. Prior to joining McMaster, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, where she also served as an Academic Director of the Memorial Research Data Centre.
Professor Kaida’s website is https://lisakaida.com/
You can reached her at kaidar@mcmaster.ca.
