Not One of the Family : : Foreign Domestic Workers in Canada / / ed. by Abigail Bakan, Daiva Stasiulis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Arat-Koc, Sedef,; Bakan, Abigail B.,; Daenzer, Patricia M.,; Elvir, Miriam,; Fudge, Judy,; Stasiulis, Daiva,; Velasco, Pura M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Bakan, Abigail,; Stasiulis, Daiva,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)

In Not One of the Family, experts on foreign domestic workers and workers-turned-activists document how the Canadian system has institutionalized unequal treatment of citizen and non-citizen workers. Since the 1940s, rights of citizenship for immigrant domestic workers in Canada have declined while the number of women recruited from Third World countries to work in Canadian homes has dramatically increased. The analysis in Not One of the Family is both theoretical to the practical, framing ideologies of privacy, maternalism, familialism, and rights, as well as examining government policy, labour organizing, and strategies to resist exploitation.A key resource for all centres for women and immigrant workers, Not One of the Family is also essential reading for civil rights and immigration lawyers, labour groups, and government policy makers.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Foreign Domestic Worker Policy in Canada and the Social Boundaries of Modern Citizenship -- 2. From ‘Mothers of the Nation’ to Migrant Workers -- 3. An Affair between Nations: International Relations and the Movement of Household Service Workers -- 4. Little Victories and Big Defeats: The Rise and Fall of Collective Bargaining Rights for Domestic Workers in Ontario -- 5. ‘The Work at Home Is Not Recognized’: Organizing Domestic Workers in Montreal -- 6. ‘We Can Still Fight Back’: Organizing Domestic Workers in Toronto -- References -- Index