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Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System

Petsa

2005

May-akda

Daiva Stasiulis and Abigail B. Bakan

Buod

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.

Lugar ng publikasyon

Toronto

Editor

University of Toronto Press

Connections

Pang-ekonomiyang sektor

General relevance - all sectors

Mga Uri ng Nilalaman

Policy analysis, Dokumentado kaso ng pang-aabuso, and Statistics on work and life conditions

Target na mga grupo

Mananaliksik

Geographical kaugnayan

Pilipinas, India, and National relevance

Spheres ng aktibidad

Pag-aaral sa Kasarian at iyag, Kasaysayan, Karapatan, and Pampulitika Agham

Wika

Ingles