Downwardly global : : women, work, and citizenship in the Pakistani diaspora / / Lalaie Ameeriar.
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 addressin...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (225 pages) |
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| 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. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822373407 0822373408 9780822363019 0822363011 9780822363163 082236316X |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Lalaie Ameeriar. |