Negotiating citizenship : migrant women in Canada and the global system / Daiva K. Stasiulis and Abigail B. Bakan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stasiulis, Daiva K.

Contributor:

Bakan, Abigail B. (Abigail Bess), 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women household employees--Canada.

Women household employees.

West Indians.

Filipinos.

Nurses.

Women foreign workers.

Canada.

Women foreign workers--Canada.

Nurses--Canada.

Citizenship--Canada.

Citizenship.

Filipinos--Canada.

West Indians--Canada.

Physical Description:

ix, 233 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

While the designated 'rights' of capital to travel freely across borders have increased, the citizenship rights of the majority of people, particularly the most vulnerable, have tended to decline. Taking Canada as an example of a major host state to international migrants, this study considers how migrant women workers from ethnic minorities from two Third World regional settings -- the West Indies and the Philippines -- have attempted to negotiate citizenship rights in an age of neo-liberalism and globalization. The authors challenge traditional theories of citizenship, which either base citizenship on membership defined in narrow national terms, or insist that the nation-state is no longer determinant. Alternatively, they demonstrate how citizenship is a contested process, where 'gatekeepers' based in specific nation-states, and the uneven world system, create barriers to citizenship rights. The transnational character of migrants' lives -- their labour strategies, family households and political practices -- offer important challenges to inequitable and exclusionary aspects of nation-state citizenship.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Negotiating Citizenship 1

2 Negotiating Citizenship in an Era of Globalization 11

3 Underdevelopment, Structural Adjustment and Gendered Migration from the West Indies and the Philippines 40

4 Gatekeepers in the Domestic Service Industry in Canada 63

5 Marginalized and Dissident Non-Citizens: Foreign Domestic Workers 86

6 Marginalized and Dissident Citizens: Nurses of Colour 107

7 The Global Citizenship Divide and the Negotiation of Legal Rights 140

8 Dissident Transnational Citizenship: Resistance, Solidarity and Organization 157.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-227) and index.

ISBN:

0333689607

OCLC:

52347793