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    Downwardly Global

    Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora

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    Author(s)
    Ameeriar, Lalaie
    Collection
    Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
    Number
    100283
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    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.
    URI
    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45659
    Keywords
    Anthropology; Canada; Cess; Multiculturalism; Pakistan; Racialization; South Asia; Toronto
    DOI
    10.1215/9780822373407
    ISBN
    9780822373407
    OCN
    954038493
    Publisher
    Duke University Press
    Publisher website
    https://www.dukeupress.edu/
    Publication date and place
    Durham NC, 2017
    Grantor
    • Knowledge Unlatched
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    Duke University Press
    Classification
    Social and cultural anthropology
    Public remark
    Relevant Wikipedia pages: Canada - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada; Cess - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cess; Multiculturalism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiculturalism; Pakistan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan; Racialization - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racialization; South Asia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asia; Toronto - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto
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    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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