Other Contributions

Conference Presentations 2006+

Ricciardelli, Rose and Amber Gazso. 2012. “Investigating Risk Perception among Corrections Officers with Experience Handling Inmates in Canadian Provincial Jails.” Paper presented at the 2012 Qualitative Analysis Conference, June, St. John’s.

Gazso, Amber, McDaniel, Susan and Ingrid Waldron. 2012. “Piecing Together Networks of Support in Diverse Low Income Families: Life Course Challenges, Choices, and Consequences.” Paper presented at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Sociological Meetings, June, Waterloo.

Gazso, Amber and Susan McDaniel. 2011. “Why Grandma Matters: Managing Low Income by Doing Family and Generation.” Paper presented at the Annual Scientific and Educational Meeting of the Canadian Association of Gerontology. October, Ottawa. 

McDaniel, Susan, Amber Gazso, Hugh McCague, Ryan Barnhart, and Paul Bernard. 2011. “Health Disparities as We Age: A Comparison of American and Canadian Early Boomers with Pre-Boomers.” Paper presented at the RDC Conference, October, Edmonton.

McDaniel, Susan, Amber Gazso, Hugh McCague, Ryan Barnhart, and Paul Bernard. 2011. “Health Disparities as We Age: A Comparison of Canadian early Boomers with Pre-Boomers.” Paper presented at Statistics Canada’s Socio-Economic Conference, September, Gatineau.

Gazso, Amber, and Susan McDaniel. 2010. “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Mid-life Families in the Current Economic Crisis.” Paper presented at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Sociology Meetings, May, Montreal.

Gazso, Amber. 2010. “Managing Low Income in Toronto: A Preliminary Analysis of Mothers’ Support Networks.” Paper presented at the Sharing Research on Gender, Social Policy and Collective Action Conference, April, Toronto.

McDaniel, Susan and Amber Gazso. 2009. “Differences that Amplify: Canadians and Americans in Mid-Life Looking to Later Years.” Paper presented at the International Sociology Association Meetings, RC19, August, Montreal.

Gazso, Amber. 2009. “Individualization, Citizenship, and Low Income Lone Mothers’ Caring  “Choices” in Canada and Great Britain: Gender, Race, and Class Still Matter.” Paper presentedat the Social Policy Association Conference, June, Edinburgh, Scotland.

McDaniel, Susan and Amber Gazso. 2009. “Differences that Amplify: Canadians and Americans in Mid-Life Looking to the Later Years.” Paper presented at the Canadian Population Society Meetings, May, Ottawa.

McDaniel, Susan and Amber Gazso. 2009. “Growing Inequalities in Later Life Health Risks: Family Challenges in Canada and the United States.” Paper presented at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Sociology Association Meetings May, Ottawa.

Gazso, Amber and Susan McDaniel. 2009. “The Risky Business of Being a Single mother on Income Support in Canada and the United States.” Paper presented at the Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting, April, San Diego, USA.

Gazso, Amber and Ingrid Waldron. 2008. “Fleshing Out the Racial Undertones of Poverty for Canadian Women and their Families.” Paper presented at the Congress of the Humanities  and Social Sciences, Canadian Sociology Association Meetings, June, Vancouver.

Gazso, Amber. 2007. “Lone Mothers’ Strategies for Balancing Market and Family Care Relations on Social Assistance: Implications for Future Policy Developments.” Paper presented at the Third Annual Population, Work, and Family Collaboration Symposium, December, Ottawa.

Gazso, Amber. 2007. “Reinvigorating the Debate: Questioning the Assumptions About and Models of the “Family” in Social Assistance Policy.” Paper presented at the Congress of the Humanities  and Social Sciences, Canadian Sociology Association Meetings, June, Saskatoon.

Gazso, Amber. 2007. “Gendering Social Citizenship in Social Assistance Policy: Implications for Low-Income Parents’ Entitlement Relationships and Everyday Market and Care Realities.” Paper presented at the Citizenship, Identity, and Social Justice Conference, Windsor, May.

Gazso, Amber. 2006. Staying Afloat on Social Assistance: Parents’ Strategies of Balancing Work and Family. Paper presented at the Congress of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Meetings, June, Toronto.

Gazso, Amber. 2006. ““Where Once I Worked as a…”: Conceptualizing the Welfare-to-Work Experiences of Parents in Early Mid-Life.” Paper presented at the Congress of the Humanities  and Social Sciences, Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Meetings,  June, Toronto.