Lalaie Ameeriar

Downwardly Global

Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora

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Produktbeschreibung

Lalaie Ameeriar follows the experiences of immigrant Pakistani women in Toronto who—despite being skilled, white-collar workers—suffer high levels of unemployment and poverty and who are advised by government-sanctioned worker programs to conform to an embodied form of multiculturalism that privileges whiteness and erases difference.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780822363019
• ISBN-10: 0822363011
• Artikelnr.: 44945483

Autorenporträt

Lalaie Ameeriar is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction  1
1. Bodies and Bureaucracies  25
2. Pedagogies of Affect  53
3. Sanitizing Citizenship  75
4. Racializing South Asia  101
5. The Catastrophic Present  127
Conclusion  153
Notes  169
References  181
Index  201