Date & time
Friday, November 7, 2025
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.
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On the Move: Migrant Workers and Food-Delivery Platforms in Italy and Canada
Speaker(s)
Maristella Cacciapaglia and Émile Baril
Cost
This event is free.
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Where
Faubourg Building
1250 Guy St. (main entrance) | 1600 Ste-Catherine St. W.
Room 620.21 (6th floor)
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Join us for an in-person seminar with Maristella Cacciapaglia and Émile Baril exploring the experiences of migrant food-delivery workers in Milan, Montreal, and Toronto. Together, they’ll examine how platform work intersects with economic precarity, algorithmic management, and informal networks.
While Maristella focuses on how workers in Milan carve out margins of possibility between platform structures and migrant networks, Émile examines the Canadian context, highlighting the dynamics of precarity that shape workers’ everyday lives. Their presentations will offer a chance to draw connections and contrasts across contexts, opening a broader conversation on migration, labour, and platform economies.
The event will feature short presentations followed by a discussion and audience Q&A.
Maristella Cacciapaglia, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Milan, is a sociologist and ethnographer whose work explores how public policies are experienced by individuals and communities at the margins. She has collaborated with a range of civil society organizations, research centers, and institutions at the international level. Most recently, she has been involved in the European project MirreM on irregular immigration, serving as one of the coordinators of the fieldwork on regularization mechanisms and policies.
Émile Baril is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Research on Migration and Society (IRMS) at Concordia University. Prior to joining IRMS, Émile carried out research at York University, where he earned his PhD in critical human geography. His research examines the intersections of migration, urban labour, and the platform economy, with a focus on the working conditions of migrant workers in industries such as food delivery and trucking. He has previously collaborated with Toronto Metropolitan University’s CERC Migration and Integration and the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) in Montreal.