Title Downwardly global : women, work, and citizenship in the Pakistani diaspora / Lalaie Ameeriar

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2017 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 207 pages) Contents Bodies and bureaucracies -- Pedagogies of affect -- Sanitizing citizenship -- Racializing South Asia -- The catastrophic present 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL SUBJECT Börngen, ... gnd Arbeit, ... gnd Subject Pakistanis -- Canada Women immigrants -- Employment -- Canada Pakistani diaspora. Cultural pluralism -- Canada Pakistanis -- Foreign countries. Anthropology. Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography. Society and social sciences Society and social sciences. Sociology and anthropology. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Pakistanis -- Foreign countries Cultural pluralism Pakistani diaspora Pakistanis Minderheit Canada Form Electronic book LC no. 2016034172 ISBN 9780822373407 0822373408

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