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Downwardly Global : Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora /

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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 addressin...

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Main Author: Ameeriar, Lalaie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Minderheit
Pakistanis.
Pakistani diaspora.
Cultural pluralism.
Pakistanis > Foreign countries.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Sociology and anthropology.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Anthropology.
Diversite culturelle > Canada.
Pakistanais > Pays etrangers.
Immigrantes > Travail > Canada.
Pakistanais > Canada.
Cultural pluralism > Canada.
Women immigrants > Employment > Canada.
Pakistanis > Canada.
Canada.
Arbeit, ...
Börngen, ...
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Bodies and bureaucracies
  • Pedagogies of affect
  • Sanitizing citizenship
  • Racializing South Asia
  • The catastrophic present.

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