TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ameeriar, Lalaie 
TI  - Downwardly Global: women, work, and citizenship in the Pakistani diaspora / 
SN  - 9780822363163
U1  - 305.8914122071 Am31D 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke Publication
KW  - Pakistanis
KW  - Canada
KW  - Women immigrants
KW  - Employment
KW  - Pakistani diaspora
N1  - Bodies and bureaucracies --
Pedagogies of affect --
Sanitizing citizenship --
Racializing South Asia --
The catastrophic present
N2  - 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.--Publisher description
ER  -