Downwardly Global : Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora / Lalaie Ameeriar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ameeriar, Lalaie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham NC : Duke University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

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:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

One. BODIES AND BUREAUCRACIES

Two. PEDAGOGIES OF AFFECT

Three. SANITIZING CITIZENSHIP

Four. RACIALIZING SOUTH ASIA

Five. THE CATASTROPHIC PRESENT

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478091073

147809107X

OCLC:

954038493

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822373407