Ng, Roxana, 1951-2013

Roxana Chu-Yee Ng (1951–2013) was an activist and scholar for fair migrant labour, gender and racial equality, and decolonising pedagogy. She is noted for her research on the garment industry in Canada and its relation to immigration, gender, race, and class, as well as her contributions to institutional ethnography, embodied learning and critical pedagogy. Ng grew up in Diamond Hill, Hong Kong, and immigrated with her parents and two brothers to Vancouver, Canada in 1970. She trained in sociology and taught at the University of New Brunswick, Queen's University, and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). She taught sociology, adult education, and community development, and directed the OISE Centre for Women's Studies in Education (2009–2013). Ng was active in immigrant women's and garment workers' organising from the mid-1970s onwards. Her work informed advocacy for the protection of homeworkers in Toronto. Notably, she served as a board member of Inter Pares, and as board member then President (1994–95) of the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW).