Détails du document

Impression et sauvegarde

Livre

Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System

Date

2005

Auteurs

Daiva Stasiulis et Abigail B. Bakan

Résumé

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.

Lieu de publication

Toronto

Éditeur

University of Toronto Press

Liens

Secteurs économiques

General relevance - all sectors

Types de contenu

Policy analysis, Cas d’abus documentés et Statistics on work and life conditions

Groupes cibles

Chercheurs

Pertinence géographique

Philippines, Inde et National relevance

Sphères d’activité

Études en genre et sexualité, Histoire, Droit et Science politique

Langues

Anglais