My full curriculum vitae (last updated: May 2023):


My recent publications:

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.

Ramos, H., L. Kaida, D. Singh, P. Pritchard, and R. Wijesingha. (2022) “The Power of a Simple Index of Neighbourhood Change: Challenging the Perception that there is no such Thing as Simplicity in Creating Indexes” The Canadian Geographer 66(2): 322-336.

Kaida, L., P. Kitchen, and M. Stick (2021) “The Rise of Big City Hockey Players and its Implication for Diversity in the National Hockey League” Canadian Ethnic Studies 53(3): 141-161.

Kitchen, P., L. Kaida, N. Akhtar-Danesh, and A. Williams. (2021) ”Unintentional Injury Deaths among Youth in Ontario, Canada from 2000 to 2015: Rates are Falling but there are Caveats” The Canadian Geographer 65(3): 255-266.

My recent presentations:

Kaida, Lisa and Monica Boyd. 2023. “Same Results but Different Mechanisms? Occupational Segregation of Blacks and Whites in Canadian Cities” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, New Orleans, April 12-15, 2023.

Kaida, Lisa and Victor Satzewich. “The Settlement and Socio-economic Integration Trajectories of Post-1991 Immigrants to Canada: A View from the Longitudinal Immigrant Database” Paper presented at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies national conference, Ukrainian Immigration to Canada: From Post Independence to Post War. Edmonton, AB, April 21-22, 2023.

Kaida, Lisa. 2023. “What can/can’t Administrative Data Tell about Refugee Integration?” Invited keynote speech for an undergraduate student conference, “Approaching Global Heath at Home: Equity, Challenges, and Health for Refugees in Canada,” Western University, London, ON, March 19, 2023.

My recent research grants:

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 Haibin Zhu (PI) and Feng 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)

Insight Development Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, PI of a project “Occupational Segregation Trends in Canada” with M. Boyd (Co-applicant), ($67,900)

Insight Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, PI of a project “The Long-term Economic Integration of Privately Sponsored Refugees in Canada” with F. Hou (Co-applicant), ($95,015)