Ramos, Howard
Howard Ramos is a political sociologist who investigates issues of social justice and equity. He has published on social movements, human rights, environmental advocacy, immigration, ethnicity, and race. He is currently working on projects looking at secondary cities, environmental advocacy, tourism development, and integration of immigrants and refugees. He works with graduate students looking at these issues as state funding of women’s organizations, new technology, and public attitudes and social values.
Research Interests: Political sociology, Immigration, Race and ethnic relations, Secondary cities, Equity and inequality, and Social statistics
Listing Details
| Institution: | Western University |
| Fields of Expertise: | Environmental Politics and Policy Ethnicity, Racism, and Xenophobia Human Rights Migration Social Policy, Welfare and Labour Market |
| Research groups: | Migration/Citizenship/Borders |
| Email: | howard.ramos@uwo.ca |
| Media outreach: | |
| Languages: | English, French |
| Publications: | Staggenborg, Suzanne and Howard Ramos. 2023. Social Movements (4th edition). Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press. Ramos, Howard, Lisa Kaida, *Diana Singh, *Paul Pritchard, and *Rocehlle Wijesingha. 2022. “The power of a simple index of neighbourhood change: Challenging the perception that there is no such thing as simplicity in creating indexes.” Canadian Geographer 66(2): 322-336. DOI: 10.1111/cag.12711 Ramos, Howard and Patrick Bondy*. 2021. “From the Pond to the Jumbotron: Affordances of Hockey as a Multicultural and Social Space.” Canadian Ethnic Studies 53(3): 219-239. McLay, Rachel and Howard Ramos. 2021. “Do Polarization Narratives Apply to Politics on the Periphery? The case of Atlantic Canada.” Frontiers in Sociology. Grant, Jill, Alan Walks, and Howard Ramos, eds. 2020. Changing Neighbourhoods: Social and Spatial Polarization in Canadian Cities. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press. |
