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Department of Sociology
University of British Columbia
Office: AnSo 2325
Phone: (604) 827-5583
Email: daniyal.zuberi(at)ubc.ca
Ph.D., A.M., Harvard University
M.Sc., Oxford University
B.A., Johns Hopkins University
Urban Sociology, Qualitative Methods, Community Studies
Urban Poverty, Social Policy, Canada-U.S. Comparative Research, Labour, Education, Health, Immigration, Inequality, Social Welfare
I am currently working on a research project titled, "Outsourced: Hospital Support Workers in Vancouver". This project focuses on the experiences of hospital cleaners, food service, and other and other health care support workers in Vancouver area hospitals. The qualitative research involves indepth interviews with workers to learn about their work and quality of life as well as to evaluate the impact of new subcontracting arrangements on these employees, their families and the quality of health care in British Columbia. This project is funded by a SSHRC Standard Research grant (2007-2011).
I am also working on a research project called, "Urban Poverty in the Pacific Northwest: A Four City Comparative Study of Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, and Portland", which was supported by a Hampton Research Grant (2006-2008).
I recently completed a research project called "Determinants of School Success in Vancouver's Eastside Elementary Schools" in partnership with the Vancouver School Board and the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP). This project, which involves interviews and observations at ten elementary schools in east Vancouver, seeks to understand what school and community factors promote or hinder literacy, numeracy, and social emotional development. This project was funded by a SSHRC Strategic Joint Initiative on Multiculturalism Issues in Canada grant (2006-2008).
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Zuberi, Dan. (under review) Schooling the Next Generation: Addressing the Challenges of Diversity in Urban Elementary Education.
Zuberi, Dan. 2006. Differences that Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
Cornell University Press Book Webpage
Zuberi, Daniyal. (under review) "Outsourced: The Negative Consequences of Contracting Out for Hospital Support Cleaners and Support Workers in Vancouver."
Zuberi, Dan, Melita Ptashnick, and Ariel Taylor. (under review) "The Deleterious Consequences of Outsourcing for Health Care Work and Quality: Perspectives from Contracted Out Hospital Housekeepers and Support Workers in Vancouver, Canada."
Ptashnick, Melita and Dan Zuberi. (under review) "Organizing for a Better Future, While Hoping to Keep their Jobs: Social Movement Unionism and the Fight for a Living Wage."
Butz, Andrew and Dan Zuberi. (under review) "Local Approaches to Counter a Wider Pattern? Urban Poverty in Portland, Oregon."
Taylor, Ariel and Dan Zuberi. (under review) "Understanding the New Urban Poverty: Neoliberalism, Social Exclusion, and the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, Canada."
Siddiqi, Arjumand, India Ornelas, Kelly Quinn, Dan Zuberi, and Quynh Nguyen. (under review) "A Tale of Two Countries: Contrasting Immigrant Health Disparities in the United States and Canada."
Zuberi, Dan and Melita Ptashnick. (forthcoming) "In Search of a Better Life: The Experiences of Working Poor Immigrants in Vancouver, Canada" International Migration.
Stal, Georgina and Daniyal Zuberi. 2010. "Ending the Cycle of Poverty Through Socio-Economic Integration: A Comparison of Moving to Opportunity (MTO) in the United States and the Bijlmermeer Revival Project in the Netherlands." Cities 27(1): 3-12. Download Here
Siddiqi, Arjumand, Daniyal Zuberi, and Quynh Nguyen. 2009. "The Role of Health Insurance for Explaining Immigrant versus Non-Immigrant Disparities in Access to Health Care: Comparing the United States to Canada." Social Science & Medicine 69(10): 1452-1459. Download Here
Zuberi, Dan. 2007. "Organizing for Better Working Conditions and Wages: The UNITE HERE! Hotel Workers Rising Campaign." Just Labour 10: 60-72. Download Here
Zuberi, Daniyal. 2004. "Transfers Matter Most: How Changes in Transfer Systems in Canada and the United States Explain the Divergence of Household Poverty Levels from 1974-1994." International Journal of Comparative Sociology 45(1-2): 87-110. Download Here
Zuberi, Daniyal. 2009. "Urban Inequality and Urban Social Movements" in Harry H. Hiller, ed. Urban Canada: Sociological Perspectives, 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press.
Tindall, David B., Fiona Kay, Daniyal Zuberi, and Kerry Bates. 2008. "Urban and Community Studies" in Lester R. Kurtz (Editor). 2008. Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict, Second Edition. Elsevier.
Zuberi, Dan. 2007. "Review of Edward Grabb and James Curtis, Regions Apart: The Four Societies of Canada and the United States (Oxford UP)" Social Forces 86(1): 368-370.
Zuberi, Daniyal. 2006. "Review of Julie McMullin, Understanding Social Inequality: Intersections of Class, Age, Gender, Ethnicity and Race in Canada (Oxford UP)." American Review of Canadian Studies 36(1): 194-196.