Description: Further DetailsTitle: Downwardly GlobalCondition: NewSubtitle: Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani DiasporaISBN-10: 082236316XEAN: 9780822363163ISBN: 9780822363163Publisher: Duke University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/10/2017Description: 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 in state-funded unemployment workshops, where they are instructed not to smell like Indian food or wear ethnic clothing, with their experiences at cultural festivals in which they are encouraged to promote these same differences. This form of multiculturalism, Ameeriar reveals, privileges whiteness while using race, gender, and cultural difference as a scapegoat for the failures of Canadian neoliberal policies.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 318gAuthor: Lalaie AmeeriarGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, Gender Sex & RelationshipsRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Downwardly Global
Title: Downwardly Global
Subtitle: Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora
ISBN-10: 082236316X
EAN: 9780822363163
ISBN: 9780822363163
Release Date: 03/10/2017
Release Year: 2017
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Downwardly Global : Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2017
Subject: Emigration & Immigration, Women's Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Item Height: 0.5 in
Item Weight: 11.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Social Science
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Lalaie Ameeriar
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
