Carieta Thomas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. As a licensed immigration attorney, Carieta’s research bridges her personal experiences as an immigrant and immigration law background with the sociology of care work. Her research examines care work at the intersection of gender, race, migration, and so-called low-skilled work. She applies governmentality and intersectionality theory to locate the experiences of care workers within larger immigration, care, labour, and race regimes that hook into matrices of domination. Her current book project uses multi-level qualitative analysis of policies, employer practices, and care worker experiences to explore the impact pre-employment screening processes have on the labour market participation and employment experiences of undocumented care workers from the Caribbean living in the U.S. and Canada. She joined the steering committee in 2025 and serves on the Awards committee. 

Selected Publications:

Thomas, Carieta. 2025. “‘Nobody’s gonna talk to you about that’: Methodological  Considerations in Research with Undocumented Caribbean Care Workers during COVID-19,” in Unmasking Academia: Institutional Inequities Laid Bare by the COVID-19 Pandemic, edited by Irene Shankar and Corinne L. Mason.

Banerjee, Pallavi, and Carieta Thomas. 2024.  “The Migrant Carework Regime and the Making of the Constant-Careworker Among Indian Immigrant Nurses.” Gender, Work & Organization.

Banerjee, Pallavi, and Carieta Thomas. 2023. “Intersectional Research on Citizenship & Labor” in Research Handbook on Intersectionality, edited by Mary Romero and Reshawna Chapple. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Thomas, Carieta and Naomi Lightman. 2022. ‘Island Girls’: Caribbean Women Care Workers in Canada”. Canadian Ethnic Studies, 54(1): 29-58.