TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ameeriar, Lalaie
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.1215/9780822373407
ID  - OAPEN ID: 625273
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Canada
KW  - Cess
KW  - Multiculturalism
KW  - Pakistan
KW  - Racialization
KW  - South Asia
KW  - Toronto
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/4e7faec8-5e6b-43b8-a9d0-81d9997eed44/625273.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31761
PB  - Duke University Press
PP  - Durham NC
PY  - 2017-03-03
SN  - 9780822373407
TI  - Downwardly Global : Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora
ER  - 
