Downwardly global : women, work, and citizenship in the Pakistani diaspora / Lalaie Ameeriar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ameeriar, Lalaie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pakistanis--Canada.

Pakistanis.

Women immigrants--Employment--Canada.

Women immigrants.

Pakistani diaspora.

Cultural pluralism--Canada.

Cultural pluralism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Place of Publication:

Durham NC Duke University Press 2017

Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In 'Downwardly Global' Lalaie Ameeriar examines the transnational labor migration of Pakistani women to Toronto. Despite being trained professionals in fields including engineering, law, medicine, and education, they experience high levels of unemployment and poverty. Rather than addressing this downward mobility as the result of bureaucratic failures, in practice their unemployment is treated as a problem of culture and racialized bodily difference. In Toronto, a city that prides itself on multicultural inclusion, women are subjected to two distinct cultural contexts revealing that integration in Canada represents not the erasure of all differences, but the celebration of some differences and the eradication of others. 'Downwardly Global' juxtaposes the experiences of these women.

Contents:

Bodies and bureaucracies

Pedagogies of affect

Sanitizing citizenship

Racializing South Asia

The catastrophic present.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822373407

0822373408

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access