Detalles del documento

Imprima y guarde

Libro

Breaking the Iron Wall: Decommodification and Immigrant Women's Labor in Canada

Fecha

2006

Autores

Habiba Zaman

Resumen

In the latter half of the twentieth century, as immigrant-receiving countries such as Canada began competing to recruit the "most desirable" candidates, immigrants became commodified, their labor bought and sold for the benefit of national and global markets. By providing empirical as well as historical evidence, Habiba Zaman undertakes a rigorous analysis of immigrant women's commodification and the possibility of their decommodification in Canada. In order to present a comprehensive picture of commodification, this book uses empirical as well as historical evidence to explore the relationship between transnational migration and globalization, a relationship that sets the trajectory for immigrant women's commodification. Breaking the Iron Wall looks at the detailed lived experiences of immigrant women, expertly revealing the intersections of race, gender, and class and exposing the forces and processes of commodification in public and private spheres.

Number of pages

187

Lugar de publicación

Lanham, MD ; Toronto

Editor

Lexington Books

Notas

Habiba Zaman.

ill. ; 24 cm.

Conexiones

Los sectores económicos

Otro

Tipos de contenido

Análisis de políticas

Los grupos destinatarios

Los investigadores

Relevancia geográfica

Canada, Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec, Colombia Británica, Otras provincias, Federal, Nueva Escocia, y National relevance

Esferas de la actividad

Estudios en Género y Sexualidad

Idiomas

Inglés