Catherine Nolin

Transnational Ruptures (eBook, ePUB)

Gender and Forced Migration

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The tensions between population displacement within and beyond Guatemala and the multiple local, regional and national realities encountered and reconfigured by refugees and migrants allow a fascinating window onto the connections and ruptures experienced in a 'global/local world'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351877879
• Artikelnr.: 48419805

Autorenporträt

Catherine Nolin is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. She is also affiliated with the Graduate Studies programs in Interdisciplinary Studies & Natural Resources and Environmental Studies. Catherine combines academic and activist concerns related to the 1980s genocide in Guatemala, refugee movement to Canada, and Canadian immigration and refugee policy. Her research and teaching interests are shaped by a commitment to social justice and human rights.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Community Ruptures and Transnational Migration: Rupture and
renewal: Guatemala-Canada connections; Gender, community, and
transnationalism. Guatemala to Canada: State violence, immigration
Policies, and Population Dynamics: flight into exile: internal armed
conflict and refugee displacement; Government policies and refugee
dynamics: geographies of movement. Spatializing Gendered Transnational
Identities: Transnational ethnographies: gendered narratives of rupture and
suture; Social spaces and immobility of refugee transnationalism.
Conclusion: Refugee transnationalism; Bibliography. Appendices: Glossary of
immigrant categories and related terms; Seeing more numbers; From asylum to
control: testimony of a deported taxi driver; "This is what I want to
deliver": Antonio's escape to Canada; Index.