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

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Author / Creator:Ameeriar, Lalaie, author.
Imprint:Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
©2017
Description:1 online resource (xi, 207 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11660216
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ISBN:9780822373407
0822373408
9780822363019
0822363011
9780822363163
082236316X
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Ameeriar, Lalaie. Downwardly global. Durham : Duke University Press, 2017 9780822363019