Imagining political and economic alternatives between Canada and the Philippines

In the Filipino language, ate (pronounced “ah-tay”) means big sister. It is also the acronym for a research initiative based at York known as ‘ATE’ – the Canada-Philippines Alternative Transnational Economies project. ATE was funded between 2015 and 2022 by a SSHRC Insight Grant, with Philip Kelly as the principal investigator, and co-investigators from Canada

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Explaining labour relations in the global fishing industry

Over the past five years a series of scandals concerning slave-like working conditions on fishing vessels have provoked global efforts to improve working conditions for fishery workers.  Yet initiatives that seek to improve working conditions are hampered by a lack of empirical evidence and explanatory analysis of the dynamics that lead to such unacceptable working

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Work at Sea: Explaining Labour Relations in the Global Fishing Industry

Principal Investigator: Peter Vandergeest/Co-Investigator: Philip Kelly. Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant. Term: 2019-2024. The research sets out to examine marine fisheries work, focusing on fisheries based out of Thailand and Taiwan that have been identified as having large numbers of migrant workers and instances of labour abuse. In particular, it aims to understand labour issues as

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Canada-Philippines Alternative Transnational Economies

Principal Investigator: Philip Kelly. Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant. Term: 2015-2022. The research project is interested in transnational economic practices that fall outside either the mainstream economy of corporate trade and investment or the private flows of remittances between family members. The study seeks those linkages that depend on the social networks created by migration and

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