Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System by A. Bak

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Negotiating Citizenship explores the growing inequalities associated with nation-based citizenship from the perspective of migrant women workers who have made their way from impoverished Third World countries to work in Canada in the caregiving industries of domestic service and nursing.

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This title explores the growing inequalities associated with nation-based citizenship from the perspective of migrant women workers who have made their way from impoverished Third World countries to work in Canada in the caregiving industries of domestic service and nursing. The study demonstrates the impact of the global political economy, public and private gatekeeping mechanisms, and racialized and gendered stereotypes on the contested relationship between citizen employers and non-citizen female migrant workers in Canada.

Author Biography

ABIGAIL B. BAKAN is Professor of Political Studies at Queen's University. Recent publications include Critical Political Studies: Debates and Dialogues from the Left (edited with Eleanor MacDonald), and Employment Equity Policy in Canada: An Interprovincial Comparison (with Audrey Kobayashi). Her areas of research include employment equity policy in Canada, Third World immigrant women, globalization and the politics of Caribbean development. - DAIVA STASIULIS is Professor of Sociology at Carleton University. Her publications include Unsettling Settler Societies: Articulations of Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Class (with Nira Yuval-Davis). Her current research examines children's citizenship and the sexualisation of children in popular culture. - Abigail B. Bakan and Daiva K. Stasiulis have jointly edited Not One of the Family: Foreign Domestic Workers in Canada.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Negotiating Citizenship Negotiating Citizenship in an Era of Globalization Underdevelopment, Structural Adjustment and Gendered Migration from the West Indies and the Philippines Gatekeepers to the Domestic Service Industry in Canada Foreign Domestic Workers in Canada Marginalized and Dissident Citizens - Nurses of Colour The Global Citizenship Divide and the Negotiation of Legal Rights Dissident Transnational Citizenship: Resistance, Solidarity and Organisation Conclusion

Long Description

While the designated 'rights' of capital to travel freely across borders have increased, the citizenship rights of the majority of people, particularly the most vulnerable, have tended to decline. Taking Canada as an example of a major host state to international migrants, this study considers how migrant women workers from ethnic minorities from two Third World regional settings - the West Indies and the Philippines - have attempted to negotiate citizenship rights in an age of neo-liberalism and globalisation. The authors challenge traditional theories of citizenship, which either base citizenship on membership defined in narrow national terms, or insist that the nation-state is no longer determinant. Alternatively, they demonstrate how citizenship is a contested process, where 'gatekeepers' based in specific nation-states, and the uneven world system, create barriers to citizenship rights. The transnational character of migrants' lives - their labour strategies, family households and political practices - offer important challenges to inequitable and exclusionary aspects of nation-state citizenship.

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Negotiating Citizenshipexplores the growing inequalities associated with nation-based citizenship from the perspective of migrant women workers who have made their way from impoverished Third World countries to work in Canada in the caregiving industries of domestic service and nursing. The study demonstrates the impact of the global political economy, public and private gatekeeping mechanisms, and racialized and gendered stereotypes on the contested relationship between citizen-employers and non-citizen female migrant workers in Canada.

Details ISBN0333689607 Short Title NEGOTIATING CITIZENSHIP Pages 233 Language English ISBN-10 0333689607 ISBN-13 9780333689608 Media Book Format Hardcover Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System Country of Publication United Kingdom Place of Publication Basingstoke Affiliation Carleton University DOI 10.1604/9780333689608 AU Release Date 2003-12-19 NZ Release Date 2003-12-19 UK Release Date 2003-12-19 Illustrations IX, 233 p. Author D. Stasiulis Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Year 2003 Publication Date 2003-12-19 Alternative 9781349401239 DEWEY 323.32240971 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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