Contours of citizenship : women, diversity and practices of citizenship / edited by Margaret Abraham [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Rethinking citizenship with women in focus / Margaret Abraham, Esther Ngan-ling Chow, Laura Maratou-Alipranti and Evangelia Tastsoglou --- 2. Less preferred workers and citizens in the making: the case of Greek domestic workers in Canada in the 1950s and 1960s / Evangelia Tastsoglou --- 3. Globalization, work and citizenship: the call centre industry in India / Margaret Abraham --- 4. Female ethnic entrepreneurship in Spain: the creation of a model for the analysis of entrepreneurial strategies / Maria Villares Varela --- 5. 'Becoming a citizen': Albanian women's civic education and political engagement in Greece / Chryssanthi Zachou and Evangelia Kalerante --- 6. The globalizing era and citizenship rights for indigenous Australian women / Maggie Walter --- 7. Post-colonial women's citizenship between identity and social-class / Joana Lopez Martins --- 8. Mobilization matters: moving immigrant and non-immigrant Latina women into the public sphere / Lisa M. Martinez --- 9. Citizenship, gender equality and the limits of law reform in South Africa / Amanda Gouws --- 10. Citizenship divided, education deprived: gender and migrant children's rights to schoolong in urban China / Esther Ngan-ling Chow --- 11. 'Liberation' and the margins: the Greek Cypriot experience / Maria Hadjipavlou --- 12. Agency and citizenship in cross-border marriages / Lucy Williams.

In an increasingly globalized world of collapsing economic borders and extending formal political and legal equality rights, active citizenship has the potential to expand as well as deepen. At the same time, with the rise of neo-liberalism, welfare state retrenchment, decline of state employment, re-privatization and the rising gap between rich and poor, the economic, social and political citizenship rights of certain categories of people are increasingly curtailed. This book examines the complexity of citizenship in historical and contemporary contexts. It draws on empirical research from a range of countries, contexts and approaches in addressing women and citizenship in a global/local world and covers a selection of diverse issues, both present and past, to include immigration, ethnicity, class, nationality, political and economic participation, institutions and the private and public spheres. This rich collection informs our understanding of the pitfalls and possibilities for women in the persistence and changes within the contours of citizenship. -- Back cover.

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