Abigail Bakan, Daiva Stasiulis

Negotiating Citizenship

Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Negotiating Citizenship demonstrates that the transnational character of migrants' lives?their migration and labour strategies, family households, and political practices?offer important challenges to inequitable and exclusionary aspects of contemporary nation-state citizenship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780802079152
• ISBN-10: 0802079156
• Artikelnr.: 21129096

Autorenporträt

Abigail B. Bakan is a professor and Chair of the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: Negotiating Citizenship
2 Negotiating Citizenship in an Era of Globalization
3 Underdevelopment, Structural Adjustment and Gendered Migration from the
West Indies and the Philippines
4 Gatekeepers in the Domestic Service Industry in Canada
5 Marginalized and Dissident Non-Citizens: Foreign Domestic Workers
6 Marginalized and Dissident Citizens: Nurses of Colour
7 The Global Citizenship Divide and the Negotiation of Legal Rights
8 Dissident Transnational Citizenship: Resistance, Solidarity and
Organization
Notes
Bibliography
Index