Izumi Sakamoto

Associate Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work

Languages (in addition to English): Japanese

• Campus:
  • St. George
• Faculty:
  • Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
• Centres:
  • Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research (CQ)

Expertise

• Anti-Asian racism
• Asian Canadian identities & model minority myth
• Canadian experience (immigrant employment discrimination)
• Community-based; participatory; arts-based research
• Critical consciousness and social work pedagogy
• Critical international social work
• Critical tacit knowledge
• Homelessness and diversity
• Immigrants and refugees
• Integration and cultural adaptation of immigrants
• Japanese Canadian identities; arts; activism & communities
• Multicultural and anti-oppressive social work
• Qualitative research
• Skilled immigrants and employment barrier (Canadian experience)