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Title Engendering transnational voices : studies in family, work, and identity / Guida Man and Rina Cohen, editors
Published Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series Studies in childhood and family in Canada
Studies in childhood and family in Canada.
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
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Immigrant families -- Social conditions
Immigrant families -- Canada -- Social conditions
Transnationalism -- Social aspects
Women immigrants -- Family relationships
Women immigrants -- Social conditions
Immigrant youth -- Family relationships
Immigrant youth -- Social conditions
Children of immigrants -- Family relationships
Children of immigrants -- Social conditions
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Children of immigrants -- Social conditions
Immigrant youth -- Social conditions
Women immigrants -- Family relationships
Women immigrants -- Social conditions
Canada
Form Electronic book
Author Cohen, Rina, 1947- author, editor
Man, Guida, 1957- author, editor
ISBN 9781771120883
1771120886
9781771120876
1771120878