Includes some edited papers previously presented at the annual meetings of the Canadian Sociological Association. "This edited volume fills a gap in the transnationalism literature by bringing together original papers that examine the transnational practices and identities of immigrant women, youth, and children in an era of global migration and neoliberalism. Specifically, the collection addresses such issues as family relations, gender and work, schooling, remittances, cultural identities, caring of children and the elderly, inter- and multi-generational relationships, activism, and refugee determination."--Introduction. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: engendering transnational voices / Rina Cohen and Guida Man -- Gulf husbands and Canadian wives: transnationalism from below among South Asians - a classed, gendered, and racialized phenomenon / Tania Das Gupta -- Maintaining families through transnational strategies: the experience of mainland Chinese immigrant women in Canada / Guida Man -- Intergenerational and transnational familyhood in Canada's technology triangle / Amrita Hari -- Transnational family exchanges in senior Canadian immigrant families / Nancy Mandell, Katharine King, Valerie Preston, Natalie Weiser, Ann Kim, and Meg Luxton -- Multidirectional care in Filipino transnational families / Valerie Francisco -- Transnationalism and remittances: the double-edged position of transmigrant women engaged in the domestic service sector / Patience Elabor-Idemudia -- Mothering has no borders: the transnational kinship networks of undocumented Jamaican Domestic workers in Canada / Susan M. Brigham -- Transnational Motherhood: constructing intergenerational relations between Filipina migrant workers and their children / Rina Cohen -- Living up to expectations: 2nd and 1.5 generation students' pursuit of university education / Leanne Taylor and Carl E. James -- Family, religion, and the re-territorialization of culture withing the South Asian diaspora / Lina Samuel -- Transnational activism: an Asian Canadian case / Xiaoping Li -- Structuring transnationalism: mothering and the educational project / Ann H. Kim -- Producing refugees and trafficked persons: women unaccompanied minors, and discourses of criminalized victimhood / Hijn Park -- Field Correspondence: exploring the roots of transnational habitus / Christine Hughes -- Migrant networks: Peruvian women (re)shaping social spaces in Madrid / Felipe Rubio.
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