Jennifer Fish

PROFESSOR
Women's Studies

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3044 BATTEN ARTS & LETTERS
NORFOLK, VA 23529

Biography

Jennifer N. Fish is a sociologist who focuses on women’s labor and migration in the informal economy, with an emphasis on transnational activism and development. As a public sociologist, Dr. Fish has conducted community-based research with students and partner organizations in Nepal, South Africa, Rwanda, Haiti, and Senegal. Her research informs four books, numerous chapters and journal articles, and organizational reports for policy and research organizations worldwide, including the International Labour Organization of the United Nations. Dr. Fish is a member of the Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) policy-research network at Harvard University, and a Research Associate at the Social Law Project at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Her work is currently funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada and the Centre for Global Social Policy at the University of Toronto.

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Expertise

Sociology

Global Development, Gender, Migration and the Informal Economy, Post-conflict Transitions, Refugee Studies
Research Interests

Women and Informal Global Labor, Transnational Activism, Migration and Refugee Rights, Women and Post-Conflict Transitions, Feminist Research Methods

Articles

Fish, J. N. (2015). Making History through Policy: A Field Report on the International Domestic Workers Movement. International Labor and Working-Class History, 88, pp. 156–165.

Eldoseri, H., Tufts, K., Zhang, Q., and Fish, J. N. (2014). Adverse health effects of spousal violence among women attending Saudi Arabian primary health-care clinics. Eastern Mediterranean health journal, 20 (11),

Gobodo-Madikizela, P., Fish, J. N., and Shefer, T. (2014). Gendered violence: Continuities and transformation in the aftermath of conflict in Africa. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 40 (1), pp. 81–99.

Earnest, D. C., and Fish, J. N. (2014). Visual Sociology in the Classroom: Using Imagery to Teach the Politics of Globalization. politics, 34 (3), pp. 248–262.

Boris, E., and Fish, J. N. (2014). “Slaves No More”: Making Global Labor Standards for Domestic Workers. Feminist Studies, 40 (2), pp. 411–443.

Miller, E., Smetherham, J., and Fish, J. N. (2012). Visual Texts as Scholar Activism: the Social Documentation of HIV/AIDS Activism and Elder Women. Kronos, 38 (1), pp. 219-248.

Fellman, A., and Fish, J. N. (2011). Still Courageous After Twenty Years. On Campus With Women. Association of American Colleges and Universities, 39 (3),

Gorman, S., Monk-Turner, E., and Fish, J. N. (2010). Free adult Internet web sites: How prevalent are degrading acts?. Gender Issues, 27 (3-4), pp. 131–145.

Fish, J. N. (2006). Engendering democracy: Domestic labour and coalition-building in South Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies, 32 (1), pp. 107–127.
Books

Fish, J. N. (2017). Domestic Workers of the World Unite! A Global Movement for Dignity and Human Rights. New York: New York University Press.

Smetherham, J., Miller, E., and Fish, J. N. (2013). The Nevergiveups. Cape Town: Electric Bookworks.
Book Chapters

Fish, J. N., and Shumpert, M. (2017). The Grassroots-Global Dialectic: International Policy as an Anchor for Domestic Worker Organizing.Gender, Migration and the Work of Care: A Multi-Scalar Approach to the Pacific Rim. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Fish, J. N., and Turner, J. L. (2016). The Global Domestic: Mapping Decent Work in International Dialogues.West Meets East: The ILO from Geneva to the Pacific Rim. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Boris, E., and Fish, J. N. (2015). Decent Work for Domestics: Feminist Organizing, Worker Empowerment and the ILO.Towards a Global History of Domestic and Caregiving Workers. Leiden: Brill.

Fish, J. N., and Russo, S. L. (2015). Documenting Trauma, Hope, and Human Security: Scholar Activist Research with Grandmothers against Poverty and AIDS.A Reflexive Inquiry into Gender Research: Towards a New Paradigm of Knowledge Production & Exploring New Frontiers of Gender Research in Southern Africa. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Fish, J. N. (2014). "Picking the Fruit from the Tree": From Colonial Legacy to Global Protections in Transnational Domestic Worker Activism.Colonization and Domestic Service: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. New York: Routledge Press.

Fish, J. N. (2014). Organizing through State Transitions and Global Institutions: Crafting Domestic Labor Policy in South Africa.When Care Goes Global. Surrey: Ashgate Press.

Fish, J. N. (2013). Rights Across Borders: Policies, Protections and Practices for Migrant Domestic Workers in South Africa.Exploited, Undervalued – and Essential: Domestic Workers and the Realisation of Their Rights. Johannesburg: Juta Academic.

Fish, J. N., and Rothchild, J. (2010). Intersections of Scholar-Activism in Feminist Fieldwork: Reflections on Nepal and South Africa.The Intersectional Approach: Transforming the Academy through Race, Class, and Gender. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Randell, S., and Fish, J. N. (2010). Promoting the Retention of Women Faculty and Students in Higher Education: the Rwandan Case.Girl-Child Education in Africa. Lagos: CIDJAP Press.

Britton, H., Fish, J. N., and Meintjes, S. (2009). Engendering Civil Society in Democratic South Africa.Women's Activism in South Africa: Working Across Divides. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.

Fish, J. N. (2009). Exploring the Relationship between Forgiveness and Socio-Economic Development: The Ongoing Dialogue of Reconciliation within the Domestic Labour Sphere.Memory, Narrative & Forgiveness – Perspectives on the Unfinished Journeys of the Past. Oxford: Oxford Unviersity Press.

Fish, J. N. (2009). Organizing from Private Spaces: Domestic Labour in South African Civil Society.Women's Activism in South Africa: Working Across Divides. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.

Fish, J. N. (2009). Securing Private Spaces: Gender and National Security in South Africa.Sexed Pistols: the Gendered Impacts of Small Arms and Light Weapons. Tokyo: United Nations University Press.

Fish, J. N. (2006). Domestic Democracy: At Home in South Africa.. New York: Routledge.
Conference Proceeding

Boris, E., and Fish, J. N. (2014). Domestic Workers Go Global: The Birth of the International Domestic Workers Federation. ,New Labor Forum (pp. 76–81)
Artistic and Professional Performances and Exhibits

C 189: Conventional Wisdom

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Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Strangers in Paradise

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The African Student Experience

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2013: Humanitarian Award, Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities, Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities
2012: Finalist, State Council of Higher Education of Virginia Outstanding Faculty, State Council of Higher Education of Virginia
2011: Woman of Distinction Award, YWCA of Hampton Roads, YWCA of Hampton Roads
2006: Faculty Member of the Year, Warren Wilson College

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Fish, J. N. "Gender, Migration And The Work of Care: Comparative Perspectives" $15,231. Foreign. April 1, 2016 - March 31, 2017

Old Dominion University

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