Home Economics : Nationalism and the Making of 'Migrant Workers' in Canada / Nandita Sharma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sharma, Nandita, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers--Government policy--Canada.

Foreign workers.

Capitalism.

Globalization.

Canada--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"A massive shift has taken place in Canadian immigration since the 1970s: the majority of migrants no longer enter as permanent residents but as temporary migrant workers. In Home Economics, Nandita Sharma shows how Canadian policies on citizenship and immigration contribute to the entrenchment of a system of apartheid where those categorized as 'migrant workers' live, work, pay taxes, and sometimes die in Canada, but are subjected to a legal regime that renders them perennial outsiders in relation to Canadian society."--Jacket

Contents:

Home(lessness) and the naturalization of 'difference'

Globalization and the story of national sovereignity

Imagined states : the ideology of 'national society'

Canadian parliamentary discours and the making of 'migrant workers'

Canada's non-immigrant employment authorization program (NIEAP) : the social organization of unfreedom fo 'migrant workers'

Rejecting global apartheid : an essay on the refusal of 'difference'.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Dez 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-7581-0

9786612023576

1-282-02357-8

OCLC:

244767379