Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Scholar, SHIFTS
Yukiko Tanaka is the Postdoctoral Fellow and scholarly lead for the SHIFTS Project. Previously she was an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream (CLTA) in Sociology at the University of Toronto and earned her PhD from the same department in 2023. 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 has published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of International Migration and Integration, Social Politics, and Ethnic and Racial Studies.