My full curriculum vitae (last updated: Mar 2026):

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My recent publications:

Swiss, L., H. Dicks, and L. Kaida. (2026). “Immigrant Remittances and Foreign Aid: Working Together in the Interest of Global Development?” Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 1–22.

Kitchen, P. J. Chowhan, and L. Kaida. (2025) “Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and Maximum Benefit Recipients in Retirement: A Profile of an Exclusive Group and Gender Differences” SN Business & Economics 5(219).

Stick, M., L. Kaida, and F. Hou. (2025) “Immigrants’ Sense of Belonging to Canada: The Role of Source-Country Gender Inequality” Journal of International Migration and Integration.

Kaida, L., F. Hou, and M. (2022) “Employment” Asylum and Resettlement in Canada: Historical Development, Successes, Challenges and Lessons Learned (Eds. Ervis Martani and Denise Helly). Franco Angeli, Italy.

Kaida, L., M. Stick, and F. Hou. (2022) “Changes in Selection Policy and Refugee Welfare Use in Canada” International Migration 60(5): 38-59.

Kaida, L. and M. Boyd. (2022) “Revisiting Gender Occupational Segregation Trends in Canada: 1991-2016” Canadian Review of Sociology 59(S1): 4-25.Download
Kaida, L., H. Ramos, D. Singh, and R. McLay. (2020) “How to Capture Neighborhood Change in Small Cities” Canadian Studies in Population 47(3): 195-205. Download
Kaida, L., F. Hou, and M. Stick. (2020) “Are Refugees More Likely to Leave Initial Destinations than Economic Immigrants? Recent Evidence from Canadian Longitudinal Administrative Data” Population, Space and Place 26(5): e2326.Download
Kaida, L., F. Hou, and M. Stick. (2020) “The Long-Term Economic Integration of Resettled Refugees in Canada: A Comparison of Privately Sponsored Refugees and Government-Assisted Refugees” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46(9): 1687-1708 Download

My recent presentations:

Lisa Kaida, Boyd, Monica, Lei Chai, and Diana Singh. 2025. “Roles of Gender Essentialism in Gender Occupational Segregation: Education and Immigrant Generational Status at Work” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL, August 9-12, 2025.

Kaida, Lisa. “Integration Outcomes of Privately Sponsored Refugees in Canada” Invited talk for the Global Forced Migration and U.S. Resettlement Meeting 4, the U.S, National Academy Sciences Beckman Center, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA.

Lisa Kaida, Monica Boyd, and Soli Dubash. 2024. “Black-White Occupational Segregation in Canada, 2021: What do we know.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Population Society, Montreal, QC, June 18-20, 2024.

My recent research grants:

Insight Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, PI of a project “Firm segregation of women, racialized people, and immigrants: New evidence from Canada” with M. Boyd and F. Hou (Co-applicants), ($176,700)

Insight Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Collaborator of a project “Social Simulation on Refugee Resettlement and Canada’s Policy Making” with H. Zhu (PI) and F. Hou (Collaborator), ($341,700)

Insight Development Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Co-PI of a project “Immigrant Remittances and Foreign Aid: Canada and the Migration/Development Nexus” with L. Swiss (PI), ($66,700)