Melissa Finn specializes in the study of immigrant women, feminist economics, citizenship, transnationalism, youth studies, and cultural analysis.
She is currently conducting research for a 5-year study on underemployment and barriers to entrepreneurial success for visible minority newcomer women in Canada for an Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)-funded project. Part of this project, also funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), is to examine the impact of the digital transformation, automation, robotics, AI, and substitution (and economic scarring due to Covid restrictions) on immigrant women’s work.