Tom O Neill
Associate Professor
Department of Child and Youth Studies
Brock University
Canada
Biography
Dr. O’Neill is a social-cultural anthropologist who has conducted extensive fieldwork in Nepal since 1993. His research in the Tibeto-Nepalese carpet industry dealt with petty-capitalism, “bonded” child labour and youth who worked as carpet weavers. He has also investigated transnational labour migration, and the effects of Nepal’s Maoist insurgency on its children and youth. His most recent research has been on Nepalese youth political engagement, and second generation Tamil-Canadian youth and transnational ethnonationalist ideology.
Research Interest
Youth political engagement; Ethnicity and nationalism; Transnationalism and globalization; Second generation immigrants and refugees in Canada; Children and youth in war zones; Child and youth 'living rights' in international development
Publications
-
(2001). "Selling Girls in Kuwait: Domestic Labour Migration and Trafficking Discourse in Nepal", Anthropologica 53(2): 153-164.
-
(2004). "Weaving Wages, Indebtedness, and Remittances in the Nepalese Carpet Industry" in Human Organization 63(2): 211-220.
-
(2005) “Labour Standard Regulation and the Modernization of Small-Scale Carpet Production in Kathmandu Nepal †in Petty Capitalists and Globalization : Flexibility, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development Edited by Alan Smart & Josephine Smart Albany N.Y: State University of New York Press pp.201-225.
-
(2005) “ Ethnic Identity and Instrumentality in Tibeto-Nepalese Carpet Production†Asian Studies Review Volume 29: pp. 279-290 .
-
O’Neill, Tom and Dawn Zinga, editors (2008) Children’s Rights: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Participation and Protection Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
-
(2009) “Social Labelling Programs in Nepal’s Carpet Industry†in The World of Child Labor: An Historical and Regional Survey edited by Hugh D Hindman, ME Sharpe Press.
-
(2015) "In the Path of Heroes: Second-gerneration Tamil-Canadians after the LTTE" Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 22(1): 124-139.
