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oapen-20.500.12657-456592023-06-05T13:08:52Z Downwardly Global Ameeriar, Lalaie Anthropology Canada Cess Multiculturalism Pakistan Racialization South Asia Toronto bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography 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. 2017-03-09 23:55 2020-03-10 03:00:30 2020-04-01T13:48:36Z 2020-04-01T13:48:36Z 2017 book 625273 OCN: 954038493 9780822373407 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45659 eng application/pdf n/a 625273.pdf Duke University Press Duke University Press 10.1215/9780822373407 100283 10.1215/9780822373407 f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780822373407 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Duke University Press Durham NC 100283 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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 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.
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