Engendering transnational voices : studies in family, work, and identity / Guida Man and Rina Cohen, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Rina, 1947- author, editor.

Man, Guida, 1957- author, editor.

Series:

Studies in childhood and family in Canada.

Studies in childhood and family in Canada

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrant families--Social conditions.

Immigrant families.

Immigrant families--Canada--Social conditions.

Transnationalism--Social aspects.

Transnationalism.

Women immigrants--Family relationships.

Women immigrants.

Women immigrants--Social conditions.

Immigrant youth--Family relationships.

Immigrant youth.

Immigrant youth--Social conditions.

Children of immigrants--Family relationships.

Children of immigrants.

Children of immigrants--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 pages).

Distribution:

Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2015

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Engendering Transnational Voices examines the transnational practices and identities of immigrant women, youth, and children in an era of global migration and neoliberalism, addressing such topics as family relations, gender and work, schooling, remittances, cultural identities, caring for children and the elderly, inter- and multi-generational relationships, activism, and refugee determination.Expressions of power, resistance, agency, and accommodation in relation to the changing concepts of home, family, and citizenship are explored in both theoretical and empirical essays that critically analyze transnational experiences, discourses, cultural identities, and social spaces of women, youth, and children who come from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds; are either first- or second-generation transmigrants; are considered legal or undocumented; and who enter their adopted country as trafficked workers, domestic workers, skilled professionals, or students. The volume gives voice to individual experiences, and focuses on human agency as well as the social, economic, political, and cultural processes inherent in society that enable or disable immigrants to mobilize linkages across national boundaries.

Contents:

Introduction: engendering transnational voices / Rina Cohen and Guida Man

Gulf husbands and Canadian wives: transnationalism from below among South Asians - a classed, gendered, and racialized phenomenon / Tania Das Gupta

Maintaining families through transnational strategies: the experience of mainland Chinese immigrant women in Canada / Guida Man

Intergenerational and transnational familyhood in Canada's technology triangle / Amrita Hari

Transnational family exchanges in senior Canadian immigrant families / Nancy Mandell, Katharine King, Valerie Preston, Natalie Weiser, Ann Kim, and Meg Luxton

Multidirectional care in Filipino transnational families / Valerie Francisco

Transnationalism and remittances: the double-edged position of transmigrant women engaged in the domestic service sector / Patience Elabor-Idemudia

Mothering has no borders: the transnational kinship networks of undocumented Jamaican Domestic workers in Canada / Susan M. Brigham

Transnational Motherhood: constructing intergenerational relations between Filipina migrant workers and their children / Rina Cohen

Living up to expectations: 2nd and 1.5 generation students' pursuit of university education / Leanne Taylor and Carl E. James

Family, religion, and the re-territorialization of culture withing the South Asian diaspora / Lina Samuel

Transnational activism: an Asian Canadian case / Xiaoping Li

Structuring transnationalism: mothering and the educational project / Ann H. Kim

Producing refugees and trafficked persons: women unaccompanied minors, and discourses of criminalized victimhood / Hijn Park

Field Correspondence: exploring the roots of transnational habitus / Christine Hughes

Migrant networks: Peruvian women (re)shaping social spaces in Madrid / Felipe Rubio.

Notes:

Includes some edited papers previously presented at the annual meetings of the Canadian Sociological Association.

"This edited volume fills a gap in the transnationalism literature by bringing together original papers that examine the transnational practices and identities of immigrant women, youth, and children in an era of global migration and neoliberalism. Specifically, the collection addresses such issues as family relations, gender and work, schooling, remittances, cultural identities, caring of children and the elderly, inter- and multi-generational relationships, activism, and refugee determination."--Introduction.

Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781771121132

1771121130

OCLC:

911205251