Jean Mayer, Concordia University

Research

(1) domestic workers (2) violence (3) precarity (4) contentious politicsinformal labor (5) informal labor (6) poverty (7) social movements (8) resistance

Latest funding

Informality, violence, and resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
$156,982
Informality, violence, and resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
$96,020
Resistance and resilience: addressing chronic violence in marginalized urban populations in Latin America and the Caribbean
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$25,000

All 5 grants and awards

Informality, violence, and resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Hilgers, Tina

Keywords: informal settlements; informal labour; resistance; chronic violence; precarity; ethnography; participatory methods; Brazil; Colombia; Jamaica

$156,982

Informality, violence, and resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Hilgers, Tina

Keywords: informal settlements; informal labour; resistance; chronic violence; precarity; ethnography; participatory methods; Brazil; Colombia; Jamaica

$96,020

Resistance and resilience: addressing chronic violence in marginalized urban populations in Latin America and the Caribbean

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Mayer, Jean François

Keywords: resistance; resilience; chronic violence; informal settlements; informal labour; marginalization; cities; gangs; ethnography; Latin America; Caribbean

$25,000

Fighting invisibility: The repertoire of everyday forms of resistance to routinized violence among domestic workers in Brazil

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Mayer, Jean François

Keywords: (1) domestic workers; (2) violence; (3) precarity; (4) contentious politicsinformal labor; (5) informal labor; (6) poverty; (7) social movements; (8) resistance; (9) gender; (10) Brazil

$57,304

Unions and pension privatization in Latin America

Co-investigatorSSHRC2008Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: Marier, Patrik

Keywords: labour movement; unions; pension reform; pension privatization; Latin America; welfare state; population ageing

$115,210

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: (1) domestic workers Dear Professor Mayer, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on (1) domestic workers connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]