1. Social governance by indicators: My dissertation explores governance by indicators in global social policy as seen through the gender goals of the Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals (MDGs and SDGs). Using the multiple manuscript format, it is comprised of three papers:
3. Gender, migration, and the work of care: This multifaceted, SSHRC-funded initiative analyzes how international migration is shaped by the growing number of women migrating for care work. My branch of research focuses on how the World Bank and the International Organization for Migration frame and govern this issue area, under the broad theme of international governance in shaping and framing care.
- The first paper shows the normative implications of governance by indicators during the SDG formation process, wherein actors were more influential if they supported indicators and quantitative approaches.
- The second paper examines UN Women’s dual support and critique of measurement in the MDGs and SDGs, where I apply a feminist lens to document analysis.
- The third paper assesses empirical evaluation of the MDGs, using data from sub-Saharan Africa in a regression discontinuity approach and arguing that MDG indicators serve better as framing devices than the measurement tools they were designed to be.
3. Gender, migration, and the work of care: This multifaceted, SSHRC-funded initiative analyzes how international migration is shaped by the growing number of women migrating for care work. My branch of research focuses on how the World Bank and the International Organization for Migration frame and govern this issue area, under the broad theme of international governance in shaping and framing care.