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Organizing the transnational : labour, politics, and social change / edited by Luin Goldring and Sailaja Krishnamurti.

Contributor(s): Goldring, Luin [editor.] | Krishnamurti, Sailaja, 1976- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, 2007Description: vi, 292 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780774814089; 077481408XSubject(s): Immigrants -- Canada | Transnationalism | Asians -- Canada | Latin Americans -- Canada | Ethnicity -- Canada | Social change -- Canada | Community organization -- CanadaLOC classification: HD8108.5.A2 | O75 2007Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-278) and index.
Contents:
State and media construction of transnational communities: a case study of recent migration from Hong Kong to Canada / Myer Siemiatycki, Valerie Preston -- Emerging postnational citizenships in international law: implications for transnational lives and organizing / Susan J. Henders -- Transnational nationalism: Sri Lankan Tamils in Canda / Sarah V. Wayland -- Demystifying transnationalism: Canadian immigration policy and the promise of nation building / Uzma Shakir -- On Tim Hortons and transnationalism: negotiating Canadianness and the role of activist/researcher / Leela Viswanathan -- Globalizing work, globalizing citizenship: community-migrant worker alliances in Southwestern Ontario / Kerry Preibisch -- Forcing government to govern in defence of noncitizen workers: a story about the Canadian labour movements's alliance with agricultural migrants / interview with Stan Raper by Kerry Preibisch -- Transnationalism, development, and social capital: Tamil community networks in Canada / R. Cheran -- Dancing here, "living" there: transnational lives and working conditions of Latina migrant exotic dancers / Gloria Patricia Díaz Barrero -- Transnational work and the gendered politics of labour: a study of male and female Mexican migrant farm workers in Canada / Ofelia Becerril -- Development and diasporic capital: nonresident Indians and the state / Pablo S. Bose -- The institutional landscapes of Salvadoran refugee migration: transnational and local views from Los Angeles and Toronto / Patricia Landolt -- The South Asia Left Democratic Alliance: the dilemmas of a transnational left / Aparna Sundar -- Transnationalism and political participation among Filipinos in Canada / Philip F. Kelly -- Transnational organizing in the Americas / Rusa Jeremic -- The challenges of extraterritorial participation: advisory councils for Peruvians abroad / Interview with Gaby Motta and Carlos Enrique Terry by Luin Goldring.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West HD8108.5.A2 O75 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903336838

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-278) and index.

State and media construction of transnational communities: a case study of recent migration from Hong Kong to Canada / Myer Siemiatycki, Valerie Preston -- Emerging postnational citizenships in international law: implications for transnational lives and organizing / Susan J. Henders -- Transnational nationalism: Sri Lankan Tamils in Canda / Sarah V. Wayland -- Demystifying transnationalism: Canadian immigration policy and the promise of nation building / Uzma Shakir -- On Tim Hortons and transnationalism: negotiating Canadianness and the role of activist/researcher / Leela Viswanathan -- Globalizing work, globalizing citizenship: community-migrant worker alliances in Southwestern Ontario / Kerry Preibisch -- Forcing government to govern in defence of noncitizen workers: a story about the Canadian labour movements's alliance with agricultural migrants / interview with Stan Raper by Kerry Preibisch -- Transnationalism, development, and social capital: Tamil community networks in Canada / R. Cheran -- Dancing here, "living" there: transnational lives and working conditions of Latina migrant exotic dancers / Gloria Patricia Díaz Barrero -- Transnational work and the gendered politics of labour: a study of male and female Mexican migrant farm workers in Canada / Ofelia Becerril -- Development and diasporic capital: nonresident Indians and the state / Pablo S. Bose -- The institutional landscapes of Salvadoran refugee migration: transnational and local views from Los Angeles and Toronto / Patricia Landolt -- The South Asia Left Democratic Alliance: the dilemmas of a transnational left / Aparna Sundar -- Transnationalism and political participation among Filipinos in Canada / Philip F. Kelly -- Transnational organizing in the Americas / Rusa Jeremic -- The challenges of extraterritorial participation: advisory councils for Peruvians abroad / Interview with Gaby Motta and Carlos Enrique Terry by Luin Goldring.

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