The New African Diaspora in Vancouver : : Migration, Exclusion and Belonging / / Gillian Creese.
The New African Diaspora in Vancouver documents the experiences of immigrants from countries in sub-Saharan Africa on Canada's west coast. Despite their individual national origins, many adopt new identities as 'African' and are actively engaged in creating a new, place-based 'Af...
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Creese, Gillian, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The New African Diaspora in Vancouver : Migration, Exclusion and Belonging / Gillian Creese. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017] ©2011 1 online resource (288 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Migration, Diaspora Spaces, and 'Canadianness' -- 1. A New African Diaspora -- 2. Erasing Linguistic Capital -- 3. Downward Mobility, Class Dislocation, and Labour Market Barriers -- 4. Reproducing Difference at Work -- 5. Gender, Families, and Transitions -- 6. Identity and Spaces of Belonging -- 7. Practices of Belonging: Building the African Community in Vancouver -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The New African Diaspora in Vancouver documents the experiences of immigrants from countries in sub-Saharan Africa on Canada's west coast. Despite their individual national origins, many adopt new identities as 'African' and are actively engaged in creating a new, place-based 'African community.' In this study, Gillian Creese analyzes interviews with sixty-one women and men from twenty-one African countries to document the gendered and racialized processes of community-building that occur in the contexts of marginalization and exclusion as they exist in Vancouver.Creese reveals that the routine discounting of previous education by potential employers, the demeaning of African accents and bodies by society at large, cultural pressures to reshape gender relations and parenting practices, and the absence of extended families often contribute to downward mobility for immigrants. The New African Diaspora in Vancouver maps out how African immigrants negotiate these multiple dimensions of local exclusion while at the same time creating new spaces of belonging and emerging collective identity. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Africans British Columbia Vancouver Social conditions. DISCOUNT-B. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110490954 print 9781442611597 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442695184 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442695184 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442695184.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Migration, Diaspora Spaces, and 'Canadianness' -- 1. A New African Diaspora -- 2. Erasing Linguistic Capital -- 3. Downward Mobility, Class Dislocation, and Labour Market Barriers -- 4. Reproducing Difference at Work -- 5. Gender, Families, and Transitions -- 6. Identity and Spaces of Belonging -- 7. Practices of Belonging: Building the African Community in Vancouver -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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