Invited Book Talks, Lectures and Colloquia
- Wesleyan University, African Studies Program, December 2023
- Boston University, Author Meets Critics Panel at Migration Scholars Workshop, Feb 2024
- Discussants: Dr. Cinzia Solari (UMass Boston) and Dr. Kafyat Mahmoud(Boston University)
- George Mason University, Institute for Immigration Research (IIR), February 2024
- Author Meets Critics Panel at the 2024 Meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, Feb 2024, Washington DC
- Discussants: Dr. Adia Harvey Wingfield; Dr. Tania Jenkins; Dr. Kelly Underman
- Siena College, Sociology Department, March 2024
- Vassar College, Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement, and Education Speaker Series, March 2024
- Vassar College, Guest Lecture, Transnational Perspectives on Women and Work Seminar, with Dr Light Carruyo, March 2024
- UConn Africana Studies Institute Book Talk, March 2024
- Williams College, Guest Lecture at Invitation to Sociology, with Dr Phi Su, April 2024
- Association for Anthropology, Gerontology, and the Life Course (AAGE), Book Discussion Series [virtual], May 2024
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
Showers, Fumilayo. 2023. ““I just ended up in nursing”: Inequalities in Health Professions Education and Migration Aspirations among Medical and Nursing Students in Ghana.” Social Science and Medicine -Qualitative Research in Health, Vol (Special Issue on Sociology of Health Professions Education.)
Showers, Fumilayo. 2022. “Moving Onward and Upward in a ‘Dead-End Job:’ Extrinsic Motivations and Rewards in Health Care Work” Sociological Forum, 37:2 (443-464)
Showers, Fumilayo. 2020. “‘Nursing was the talk around town’: West African Immigrant Communities, Labor Recruitment and the “Crisis of Care” in Advanced Economies” in Within the Knot: Liberal Arts Perspectives on Globalism and Transnationalism. Van de Logt, Martinus and Hyun Wu Lee (eds). New Castle Upon Tyne: (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
Showers, Fumilayo. 2018. “Learning to Care: Work Experiences and Identity Formation among African Immigrant Care Workers.” International Journal of Care and Caring IJCC, 2:1 (7-25)
Showers, Fumilayo. 2015 “Being Black, Foreign and Woman: African Immigrant Identities in the United States” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 38:10 (1813-1828)
Showers, Fumilayo. 2015 “‘Professional Identities, Boundary Work and Meaning Making Among West African Nurses” in Caring on the Clock: The Complexities and Contradictions of Paid Care Work, Duffy Mignon, Amy Armenia and Clare Stacey eds. (Rutgers University Press)
Book Reviews and Other Writings
Showers, Fumilayo. 2024. Review of “Nursing the Spirit: Care, Public Life, and the Dignity of Vulnerable Strangers” by Don Wright. New York: Columbia University Press, in Social Forces, soae012,
Showers, Fumilayo. 2022. “Immigrant Social Networks and the Little-Known Story of African Immigrants Providing Solutions to the “Crisis of Care” in the US” Blog post for The Shape of Care Podcast
Showers, Fumilayo. 2021. Review of “You Don't Look Like a Lawyer: Black Women and Systematic Gendered Racism.” by Tsedale M. Melaku. New York and London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers in Gender and Society 35(1) 145-14.
Showers, Fumilayo. 2020. Review of “The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers.” By Cati Coe. New York: New York University Press, in Ethnic and Racial Studies 43 (3) 594-596
Showers, Fumilayo. 2019. Review of “A Nation on the Line: Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines.” By Jan M. Padios. Durham and London: Duke University Press, in American Journal of Sociology, 124 (6)