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Amber Gazso
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Read how they describe their research on their University of the Fraser Valley profile.
Latest papers
Only ever mothers? Or other than mothers? Ambivalence and ‘good’ mothering on welfare in Ontario, Canada
Journal of Family Studies · 2026 · senior author
Parenting Children While Living With Addiction and on Low Income: Illuminating “System Work” and Its Consequences
2026 · first author
(Re-) producing gender-based violence in Canada: The state of things, and the Ontario transitional and housing support program
Women s Studies International Forum · 2025 · senior author
62 publications.
Only ever mothers? Or other than mothers? Ambivalence and ‘good’ mothering on welfare in Ontario, Canada
Amber-Lee Varadi, Amber Gazso
Parenting Children While Living With Addiction and on Low Income: Illuminating “System Work” and Its Consequences
Amber Gazso
(Re-) producing gender-based violence in Canada: The state of things, and the Ontario transitional and housing support program
Madison Brockbank, Amber Gazso
7 Families and Resilience: Immigrant Integration in Metropolitan Toronto
Nancy Mandell, Janice Phonepraseuth, Jana Borras, Larry Lam, Amber Gazso, Guida C. Man
Managing More than Poverty When Living With Addiction: Parents’ Emotion and Identity Work
Amber Gazso
COVID-19 in the wake of the great recession in Canada and the U.S.: Reflections on social reproduction and life courses.
McDaniel SA, Gazso A
Resisting the Culture of Poverty Narrative: Perspectives of Social Assistance Recipients
Collins SB, Smith-Carrier T, Gazso A, Smith C
The Generationing of Social Assistance Receipt and “Welfare Dependency” in Ontario, Canada
Gazso A, Collins SB, Smith-Carrier T, Smith C
Myth or Reality? Exploring Intergenerational Social Assistance Participation in Ontario, Canada
Dueling discourses, power, and the construction of the recovering addict : When social assistance confronts addiction in Toronto, Canada
Amber Gazso
Frequent collaborators
- Stephanie Baker Collins and Tracy Smith-Carrier: 4 shared papers
- Stephanie Baker Collins and Amber Gazso: 4 shared papers
- Harvey Krahn and Kevin Haggerty: 4 shared papers
- Tracy Smith-Carrier and Amber Gazso: 4 shared papers
- Ingrid Waldron and Amber Gazso: 3 shared papers
- Kevin Haggerty and Amber Gazso: 3 shared papers
- Martin Cooke and Amber Gazso: 1 shared paper
- Rose Ricciardelli and Amber Gazso: 1 shared paper
- Harvey Krahn and Amber Gazso: 1 shared paper
- Guida Man and Nancy Mandell: 1 shared paper
- Guida Man and Amber Gazso: 1 shared paper
- Nancy Mandell and Amber Gazso: 1 shared paper
- Sociology Dept
- Department of Sociology
- School of Culture, Media, and Society
- Social Work
- Sociology
- HOPE Chair in Peace and Health
- Social Organization
- Other
Co-authors at University of the Fraser Valley, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Tracy Smith-Carrier
Sociology
4 shared papers, latest 2020
Stephanie Baker Collins
Social Work
4 shared papers, latest 2020
Ingrid Waldron
HOPE Chair in Peace and Health
3 shared papers, latest 2016
Kevin Haggerty
Sociology Dept
3 shared papers, latest 2005
Ingrid Waldron
Faculty
3 shared papers, latest 2016
Jason Webb
Faculty
2 shared papers, latest 2019
Nancy Mandell
Department of Sociology
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Guida Man
Social Organization
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Rosemary Ricciardelli
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2013
Martin Cooke
School of Public Health Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2008
Rose Ricciardelli
Department of Sociology
1 shared papers, latest 2013
Harvey Krahn
Sociology Dept
1 shared papers, latest 2008
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Profile data last refreshed on September 29, 2026 from the university directory, publication records and public research funding records.