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Downwardly Global: Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora
Lalaie Ameeriar
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Description for Downwardly Global: Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora
Hardback. Lalaie Ameeriar follows the experiences of immigrant Pakistani women in Toronto who-despite being skilled, white-collar workers-suffer high levels of unemployment and poverty and who are advised by government-sanctioned worker programs to conform to an embodied form of multiculturalism that privileges whiteness and erases difference. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 454.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822363019
SKU
V9780822363019
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About Lalaie Ameeriar
Lalaie Ameeriar is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Reviews for Downwardly Global: Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora
“Ameeriar’s book echoes an important refrain from diasporic feminist scholars, insisting that despite the various scales at which disenfranchisement and violence function, migrant women resourcefully find ways to persist.”
Kareem Khubchandani
Journal of Asian American Studies
“Radically subversive, superbly written.”
Pnina Werbner
Pacific Affairs
"Of interest to scholars of citizenship and governance, globalization and ... Read more
Kareem Khubchandani
Journal of Asian American Studies
“Radically subversive, superbly written.”
Pnina Werbner
Pacific Affairs
"Of interest to scholars of citizenship and governance, globalization and ... Read more