Downwardly Global : Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora
Ameeriar, Lalaie
Downwardly Global : Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora - Durham NC Duke University Press 2017
Open Access
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.
Creative Commons
English
9780822373407 9780822373407
10.1215/9780822373407 doi
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
Anthropology Canada Cess Multiculturalism Pakistan Racialization South Asia Toronto
Downwardly Global : Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora - Durham NC Duke University Press 2017
Open Access
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.
Creative Commons
English
9780822373407 9780822373407
10.1215/9780822373407 doi
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
Anthropology Canada Cess Multiculturalism Pakistan Racialization South Asia Toronto