Department of Sociology Graduate Projects

Modern Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking in North America: A Comprehensive Review of the Patterns, Themes, and Research Gaps within the Existing Literature

Dick, Chloe (2021-04)

The sexual exploitation of minors in North America has become an increasingly prevalent and complicated issue in recent years. Evidence indicates that upwards of 200,000 minors are at risk each year in the United States ...
Framing, Claiming and Blaming: The Social Construction of Collective Memory and Victimhood in Contemporary North American Holocaust Narratives

Swartz, Tamar (2011-06-28)

North American Holocaust narratives have undergone a number of temporal phases in collective representation, shifting from an initial widespread silence, to the current state of mass Americanization. The processes of how ...
The New Local Governance of Immigration in Canada: Regulation and Responsibility

Pero, Rebecca (2011-05-10)

In 2010, the Government of Canada significantly cut settlement service funding that helps immigrants integrate into Canadian communities. Concurrently, within the last three years, Citizenship and Immigration Canada and ...