Habiba Zaman

Breaking the Iron Wall

Decommodification and Immigrant Women's Labor in Canada

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Produktbeschreibung

By providing empirical as well as historical evidence, Habiba Zaman undertakes a rigorous analysis of immigrant women's commodification and the possibility of their decommodification in Canada.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9780739112359
• ISBN-10: 073911235X
• Artikelnr.: 22066187

Autorenporträt

Habiba Zaman is an anthropologist who is an associate professor of Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Globalization, Neo-Liberal Globalism, and
Migration Chapter 3 Canadian Immigration in an Era of Neo-Liberalism:
Trends and Impacts Chapter 4 The Canadian State and Immigrant Labor:
Intersections of Gender, Class, and Race Chapter 5 Commodification of
Laborers: "Defamilializing" the Privileged and "Refeudalizing" the Im /
Migrants Chapter 6 Decommodification and Immigrant Women: Access to Social
Benefits and Services Chapter 7 Recommodification of Labor: Results of
Re-Skilling Chapter 8 Immigrant Women as Agents of Change: The Role of
Networks and Associations Chapter 9 Summary and Conclusions