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Sedef Arat-Koç is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration, and a member of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies, at Ryerson University . She received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her Ph.D. thesis is entitled Peasants, Hegemony and the Politics of “Normal Times”: The Cases of the Republican Peoples’ Party and the Democrat Party, Turkey. She also holds a Master of Arts in Sociology from the University of Waterloo, and a Bachelor of Arts from Bogazici Üniversitesi (Turkey).

Publications include:

“New Whiteness(es), Beyond the Colour Line? Assessing the Contradictions and Complexities of ‘Whiteness’ in the (Geo)Political Economy of Capitalist Globalism.” In States of Race: Critical Race Feminism for the 21st Century, ed. Sherene Razack, Malinda Smith and Sunera Thobani, 147-168.

Caregivers Break the Silence. A Participatory Action Research on the Abuse and Violence, Including the Impact of Family Separation Experienced by Women in the Live-in Caregiver Program. Toronto: INTERCEDE, 2001.

“Neoliberalism, State Restructuring and Immigration: Changes in Canadian Policies in the 1990s.” Journal of Canadian Studies 34:2 (1999): 31-56.

“Gender and Race in ‘Non-Discriminatory’ Immigration Policies in Canada: 1960s to the Present.” In Scratching the Surface: Canadian Anti-Racist Feminist Thought, ed. Enakshi Dua and Angela Robertson, 207-233. Toronto: Women's Press, 1999.

“NAC's Response to the Immigration Legislative Review Report ‘Not Just Numbers: A Canadian Framework for Future Immigration’.” In Canadian Woman Studies, Special Issue on Immigrant and Refugee Women 19:3 (Fall 1999): 18-23.

“‘Good Enough to Work but Not Good Enough to Stay’: Foreign Domestic Workers and the Law.” In Locating Law: Race/Class/Gender Connections, ed. Elizabeth Comack, 125-151. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 1999.

“From ‘Mothers of the Nation’ to Migrant Workers: Immigration Policies and Domestic Workers in Canadian History.” In Not one of the Family: Foreign Domestic Workers in Canada, ed. Abbie Bakan and Daiva Stasiulis, 53-79. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.

Maid in the Market: Women's Paid Domestic Labour (co-edited with Wenona Giles). Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 1994.

“Immigration Policies, Migrant Domestic Workers and the Definition of Citizenship in Canada.” In Deconstructing a Nation: Immigration, Multiculturalism and Racism in 90's Canada, ed. Vic Satzewich, 229-242. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 1992. Reprinted in Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women’s History, 3rd ed., ed. Veronica Strong-Boag and Anita Clair Fellman, 283-298. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Looking Through the Kitchen Window: The Politics of Home and Family, 2nd ed. (with Meg Luxton and Harriet Rosenberg). Toronto: Garamond Press, 1990.

“In the Privacy of Our Own Home: Foreign Domestic Workers as Solution to the Crisis of the Domestic Sphere in Canada.” Studies in Political Economy 28 (Spring 1989): 33-58. Reprinted in: Feminism in Action: Studies in Political Economy, ed. M. Patricia Connely and Pat Armstrong, 149-174. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 1992. Revised and Updated Version Published as: “Politics of the Family and Politics of Immigration in the Subordination of Domestic Workers in Canada.” In Family Patterns and Gender Relations, 2nd ed., ed. Bonnie Fox, 352-374. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2001. Revised and updated version reprinted in Gender in the 1990s, ed. E. D. Nelson and B. W. Robinson, 413-442. Nelson Canada, 1995.