Associate Professor, Sociology and Critical Criminology
Office: STH 414
905-688-5550 x4369
jham@brocku.ca
Education:
PhD, Monash University
MSW, University of Toronto
BSW, University of Victoria
BA, University of British Columbia
Julie Ham’s research is grounded in academic-community collaborations that speak to priorities identified by migrant and minority communities, such as the dehumanization of domestic workers, harms produced by the anti-trafficking industry, the impact of social difference in sex work, the trajectory of migrant remittances, knowledge production and cultural production by migrants through participatory and visual methodologies. Her research on migration, labour, social difference and the criminology of mobility has been published in The British Journal of Criminology; Critical Social Policy; Culture, Health & Sexuality; Gender, Work & Organization; International Journal of Qualitative Methods; Sociology; Theoretical Criminology; and Work, Employment and Society. She was awarded the Radzinowicz Memorial Prize for 2014 by The British Journal of Criminology for her co-authored article with Sharon Pickering, ‘Hot pants at the border: Sorting sex work from trafficking’.
For more information about her research, visit Mobile Methodologies and Migrant Knowledges at https://www.mmmk.ca/
- Crimmigration
- Sex work
- Anti-trafficking
- Labour migration
- Intersectionality
Books
- Yu, Y., Vicera, C. & Ham, J. with Migrant Writers of Hong Kong and Lensational. (2024). Ingat: An Anthology of Works by Migrant Domestic Worker Creatives in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Small Tune Press.
- Ham, J. (2017). Sex Work, Immigration and Social Difference. Routledge.
- Pickering, S. & Ham, J. (2015). The Routledge Handbook on Crime and International Migration. London: Routledge.
Journal Articles
- Ham, J. (2024). Hypersexualisation and racialised erotic capital in sex work. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 1-15. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2BMB8WITN2X2PQ8WPPD9/full?target=10.1080/13691058.2024.2351996
- Lapto, F. K., Chan, M. W., Lau, W. S., Souza, A., & Ham, J. (2024). At home in illegality: place-making practices in Hong Kong’s industrial buildings. Housing Studies, 1-26. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QQMJZN9HDKPCPDJ8KWNX/full?target=10.1080/02673037.2024.2355197
- Gheorghiu, I. & Ham, J. (2022). Biographical work and the production of credibility in sex work interviews. The British Journal of Criminology, 63(1), 151–167. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac003
- Ham, J., Lin, V.W. & Sunuwar, M. (2022). Migrating methods in a pandemic: Virtual participatory video with migrants in Hong Kong. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 21, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F16094069221112251
- Ham, J. & Ceradoy, A. (2022). “God blessed me with employers who don’t starve their helpers”: Food insecurity and dehumanization in domestic work. Gender, Work & Organization, 29(3), 922-937. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12643
- Ham, J. & Gheorghiu, I. (2020). Scripting pragmatic intimacies in sex work, migration and intimate-material exchanges. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 23(10), 1375–1389. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2020.1785011
- Ham, J. & Sunuwar, M. (2020). Experiments in enchantment: Domestic workers, upcycling and social change. Emotion, Space and Society, 37, 100715. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2020.100715
- Ham, J. (2020). Rates, roses and donations: Naming your price in sex work. Sociology, 54(5), 953-968. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520906773
- Ham, J. (2020). Using difference in intersectional research with im/migrant and racialized sex workers. Theoretical Criminology, 24(4), 551-567. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1362480618819807
- Lin, V.W., Ham, J., Gu, G., Sunuwar, M., Luo, C. & Gil-Besada, L. (2019). Reflections through the lens: Participatory video with migrant domestic workers, asylum seekers and ethnic minorities. Emotion, Space and Society, 33, 100622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2019.100622
- Vecchio, F. & Ham, J. (2018). From subsistence to resistance: Asylum-seekers and the other ‘Occupy’ in Hong Kong. Critical Social Policy, 38(3): 201-221. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018317699162
- Ham, J. & Gilmour, F. (2017). ‘We all have one’: Exit plans as a professional strategy in sex work. Work, Employment & Society, 31(5), 748-763. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017016666198
- Ham, J., Jung, K. & Jang, H. (2016). Silence, mobility and ‘national values’: South Korean sex workers in Australia. Sexualities, 19(4): 432-448. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460715613289
- Clancey, A., Khushrushahi, N. & Ham, J. (2014). Do evidence-based approaches alienate Canadian anti-trafficking funders? Anti-Trafficking Review, 3, 87-108. https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.20121435
- Ham, J. & Gerard, A. (2014). Strategic in/visibility: Does agency make sex workers invisible? Criminology and Criminal Justice, 14(3): 298-313. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895813500154
- Pickering, S. & Ham, J. (2014). Hot pants at the border: Sorting sex work from trafficking. British Journal of Criminology, 54(1): 2-19. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azt060
- Ham, J., Segrave, M. & Pickering, S. (2013). In the eyes of the beholder: Gender and suspect travelers at the border and within the nation. Anti-Trafficking Review, 2: 51-56. https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.20121323
Book chapters
- Clancey, A. & Ham, J. (2024). Anti-trafficking policing in Vancouver: The denial of crimes against Asian sex workers. In K. Roots, A. de Shalit & E. van der Meulen (Eds.), Trafficking Harms: Critical Politics, Perspectives and Experiences. Fernwood Publishing.
- Ham, J., Vicera, C. & Gbadago, J.J. (2024). Developing decolonial aesthetics with migrant domestic worker creative communities. In G.K. Bhambra, L. Mayblin, K. Medien & M. Viveros-Vigoya (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Global Sociology (pp.157-174). SAGE.
- Ham, J. (2023). Anti-pandemic measures, labour rights, and the legibility of harm in domestic work. In P. Davies & M. Rowe (Eds.), Criminology of the Domestic (pp. 117-134). Routledge.
- Ham, J., Gheorghiu, I. & Lestari, E. (2022). Migrant domestic workers, asylum-seekers and premonitions of anti-trafficking in Hong Kong. In K. Kempadoo & E. Shih (Eds.), White Supremacy, Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking (pp. 253-266). Routledge.
- Ham, J. (2020). Anti-trafficking in Southeast Asia. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.013.612
- Mackenzie, K. & Ham, J. (2019). SWAN Vancouver: Supporting immigrant and migrant women in the sex industry. In A. Lebovitch & S. Ferris (Eds.), Sex Work Activism in Canada: Speaking Out, Standing Up (pp. 104-117). Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing.
- Ham, J. (2015). Intuiting illegality in sex work. In S. Pickering & J. Ham (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook on Crime and International Migration (pp. 206-219). London: Routledge.
- Ham, J. & Dewar, F. (2014). Shifting public anti-trafficking discourses through arts and media. In S. Yea (Ed.) Human Trafficking in Asia: Forcing Issues (pp. 185-199). Abingdon: Routledge.
- Ham, J. for GAATW. (2013). Trafficking and gender. In D.M. Figart & T.L. Warnecke (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Gender and Economic Life (pp. 542-558). Northampton: Edward Elgar.
- CRIM/SOCI 2P62 Sociology of Criminal Justice
- CRIM/SOCI 3Q93 Human Migration in a Globalized World
- CRIM/SOCI 3P96 Regulating and Policing Sex Work
- CRIM/SOCI 4P01 Service-Learning in Community Justice
- SOCI 5P02 Critical Social Research Design and Methods
