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Negociating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System

Date

2003

Authors

Abiagail B. Bakan and Daiva K. Stasiulis

Abstract

While the designated rights of capital to travel freely across borders have increased under neo-liberal globalization, the citizenship rights of many people, particularly the most vulnerable, have tended to decline. Using Canada as an example of a major recipient state of international migrants, Negotiating Citizenship considers how migrant women workers from two settings in the global South–the West Indies and the Philippines–have attempted to negotiate citizenship across the global citizenship divide.

Daiva K. Stasiulis and Abigail B. Bakan challenge traditional liberal and post-national theories of citizenship with a number of approaches: historical documentary analyses, investigation of the political economy of the sending states, interviews with migrant live-in caregivers and nurses, legal analyses of domestic worker case law, and analysis of social movement politics. Negotiating Citizenship demonstrates that the transnational character of migrants' lives–their migration and labour strategies, family households, and political practices–offer important challenges to inequitable and exclusionary aspects of contemporary nation-state citizenship.

(source: http://www.amazon.ca/Negotiating-Citizenship-Migrant-Canada-Global/dp/0802079156 )

Place published

Houndmills

Publisher

Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan

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Economic sectors

Occupations in services - Domestic work and Other

Content types

Policy analysis

Target groups

Public awareness, Researchers, Unions, and NGOs/community groups/solidarity networks

Regulation domains

Right to change employer, Right to choose place of residence, Right to unionize, Labour standards, Health and safety at work, Newcomers integration programs, Health care & social services, Access to permanent status, Family reunification, Legal aid, Employment insurance, Social security, Right to equality (gender), Right to equality (national origin), Right to liberty, and Right to dignity

Geographical focuses

Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec, British Columbia, Other provinces, Federal, and Nova Scotia

Spheres of activity

Anthropology, Cultural and ethnic studies, Gender and sexuality studies, Law, Political science, and Sociology

Languages

English