TY  - GEN
AU  - Ameeriar,Lalaie
TI  - Downwardly Global : Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora
SN  - 9780822373407
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Durham NC
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Canada
KW  - Cess
KW  - Multiculturalism
KW  - Pakistan
KW  - Racialization
KW  - South Asia
KW  - Toronto
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/4e7faec8-5e6b-43b8-a9d0-81d9997eed44/625273.pdf
UR  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31761
ER  -