Transnational Identities And Practices In Canada
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| Author | : Vic Satzewich |
| Publisher | : UBC Press |
| Total Pages | : 361 |
| Release | : 2011-11-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0774840994 |
With contributions from some of Canada's leading historians, political scientists, geographers, anthropologists, and sociologists, this collection examines the transnational practices and identities of immigrant and ethnic communities in Canada. It looks at why members of these groups maintain ties with their homelands -- whether real or imagined -- and how those connections shape individual identities and community organizations. How does transnationalism establish or transform geographical, social, and ideological borders? Do homeland ties affect what it means to be "Canadian"? Do they reflect Canada's commitment to multiculturalism? Through analysis of the complex forces driving transnationalism, this comprehensive study focuses attention on an important, and arguably growing, dimension of Canadian social life. This is the first collection in Canada to provide a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of transnationalism. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in issues of immigration, multiculturalism, ethnicity, and settlement.
| Author | : Lloyd L. Wong |
| Publisher | : UBC Press |
| Total Pages | : 373 |
| Release | : 2017-03-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0774833815 |
With the number of Chinese living outside of its borders expected to reach 52 million by 2030, China has one of the most mobile populations on earth, shaping economies, cultures, and politics around the globe. Trans-Pacific Mobilities charts how the cross-border movement of Chinese people, goods, and images affects notions of place, belonging, and identity, particularly in Canada. Drawing on the new mobilities paradigm, contributors explore this phenomenon through five lenses, mapping out historic, cultural and symbolic, highly skilled, family and gendered, and transnational mobilities. This volume offers fresh insights into historical and contemporary Chinese mobilities and issues of transnationalism.
| Author | : Nalini Junko Negi |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2010-09-29 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0231526318 |
A growing number of people immigrants, refugees, asylum-seekers, displaced individuals, and families lead lives that transcend national boundaries. Often because of economic pressures, these individuals continually move through places, countries, and cultures, becoming exposed to unique risk and protective factors. Though migration itself has existed for centuries, the availability of fast and cheap transportation as well as today's sophisticated technologies and electronic communications have allowed transmigrants to develop transnational identities and relationships, as well as engage in transnational activities. Yet despite this new reality, social work has yet to establish the parameters of a transnational social work practice. In one of the first volumes to address social work practice with this emergent and often marginalized population, practitioners and scholars specializing in transnational issues develop a framework for transnational social work practice. They begin with the historical and environmental context of transnational practice and explore the psychosocial, economic, environmental, and political factors that affect at-risk and vulnerable transnational groups. They then detail practical strategies, supplemented with case examples, for working with transnational populations utilizing this population's existing strengths. They conclude with recommendations for incorporating transnational social work into the curriculum.
| Author | : Guida Man |
| Publisher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
| Total Pages | : 357 |
| Release | : 2015-05-04 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1771120878 |
Engendering Transnational Voices examines the transnational practices and identities of immigrant women, youth, and children in an era of global migration and neoliberalism, addressing such topics as family relations, gender and work, schooling, remittances, cultural identities, caring for children and the elderly, inter- and multi-generational relationships, activism, and refugee determination. Expressions of power, resistance, agency, and accommodation in relation to the changing concepts of home, family, and citizenship are explored in both theoretical and empirical essays that critically analyze transnational experiences, discourses, cultural identities, and social spaces of women, youth, and children who come from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds; are either first- or second-generation transmigrants; are considered legal or undocumented; and who enter their adopted country as trafficked workers, domestic workers, skilled professionals, or students. The volume gives voice to individual experiences, and focuses on human agency as well as the social, economic, political, and cultural processes inherent in society that enable or disable immigrants to mobilize linkages across national boundaries.
| Author | : Reginald C. Stuart |
| Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
| Total Pages | : 317 |
| Release | : 2010-10-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0773581332 |
The border between Canada and the United States separates political sovereignties, but not the shared themes of cultural, social, and economic history that have unfolded since the 18th century. Transnationalism brings together original works that focus on the shared histories of the United States and Canada that have over two centuries created a distinct North American identity and sensibility. Contributors explore the phenomenon of a North American history and discuss interactions between Canada and the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. Specific themes include the First Nations experience, national and North American identities and culture, social and economic cooperation, and issues of security and defence. Transnationalism challenges us to put the border in context order to better understand the past, present, and future interrelationships between Canada and the United States.
| Author | : Jessica Tsui-yan Li |
| Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
| Total Pages | : 186 |
| Release | : 2019-09-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0773558071 |
Highlighting the geopolitical and economic circumstances that have prompted migration from Hong Kong and mainland China to Canada, The Transcultural Streams of Chinese Canadian Identities examines the Chinese Canadian community as a simultaneously transcultural, transnational, and domestic social and cultural formation. Essays in this volume argue that Chinese Canadians, a population that has produced significant cultural imprints on Canadian society, must create and constantly redefine their identities as manifested in social science, literary, and historical spheres. These perpetual negotiations reflect social and cultural ideologies and practices and demonstrate Chinese Canadians' recreations of their self-perception, self-expression, and self-projection in relation to others. Contextualized within larger debates on multicultural society and specific Chinese Canadian cultural experiences, this book considers diverse cultural presentations of literary expression, the “model minority” and the influence of gender and profession on success and failure, the gendered dynamics of migration and the growth of transnational (“astronaut”) families in the 1980s, and inter-ethnic boundary crossing. Taking an innovative approach to the ways in which Chinese Canadians adapt to and construct the Canadian multicultural mosaic, The Transcultural Streams of Chinese Canadian Identities explores various patterns of Chinese cultural interchanges in Canada and how they intertwine with the community's sense of disengagement and belonging. Contributors include Lily Cho (York), Elena Chou (York), Eric Fong (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Loretta Ho (Toronto), Jack Leong (Toronto), Jessica Tsui-yan Li (York), Lucia Lo (York), Guida Man (York), Kwok-kan Tam (Hang Seng Management College), Eleanor Ty (Wilfrid Laurier), and Henry Yu (British Columbia).
| Author | : David Barker |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Japan |
| ISBN | : |
The zainichi are descendants of colonial Koreans in Japan. This thesis employs sernistructured interviews, transnational theory and Bourdieu's conception of cultural capital to construct a qualitative analysis of zainichi identity representations. This thesis suggests that symbolic Koreanness acts as a severe 'deficit' that is frequently held against one's equal inclusion in Japan because Japan's national symbolic structure seems to exclude the possibility that zainichi can be fully Japanese, and that an undeniable, systemic pattern of zainichi suffering has arisen in Japan partly through a malfeasance in the state's wielding of symbolic power. Transnationalism, and the Bourdiean concepts of cultural capital and practice are employed to investigate the apparent paradox of a zainichi acquisition of formidable Japanese cultural capital and generally equally large deficits in the capital necessary to gain them distinction or membership in Korea or a Korean diaspora, combined with their being identified as symbolic representatives of Korea.
| Author | : Dan Avnon |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2009-12-17 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1135239703 |
This book focuses on the Jewish-Palestinian conflict within the state of Israel and the general issue of the role played by modern states in either mitigating majority-minority conflict or exacerbating it. A comparative study, the chapters that concentrate on theoretical models, and comparable historical, legal or political patterns of development.
| Author | : May Friedman |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2016-01-01 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1487519966 |
The essays in Click and Kin span the globe, examining transnational connections that touch in the United States, Canada, Mexico, India, Pakistan, and elsewhere.
| Author | : Adrienne Chambon |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2013-06-17 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1136493913 |
In the context of ever-increasing globalization, transnational systems of support have emerged in response to the needs of transnational families, labour forces, and the communities within which they are located. This volume will be the first to systematically address transnational support research from a theoretical and empirical perspective, making the concept of transnationality part of the core knowledge structure of social work.
