Negotiating Citizenship
Negotiating Citizenship explores the growing inequalities associated with nation-based citizenship from the perspective of migrant women workers who have made their way from impoverished Third World countries to work in Canada in the caregiving industries of domestic service and nursing. The study demonstrates the impact of the global political economy, public and private gatekeeping mechanisms, and racialized and gendered stereotypes on the contested relationship between citizen-employers...
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Negotiating Citizenship explores the growing inequalities associated with nation-based citizenship from the perspective of migrant women workers who have made their way from impoverished Third World countries to work in Canada in the caregiving industries of domestic service and nursing. The study demonstrates the impact of the global political economy, public and private gatekeeping mechanisms, and racialized and gendered stereotypes on the contested relationship between citizen-employers and non-citizen female migrant workers in Canada.
Acknowledgements1Introduction: Negotiating Citizenship12Negotiating Citizenship in an Era of Globalization113Underdevelopment, Structural Adjustment and Gendered Migration from the West Indies and the Philippines404Gatekeepers in the Domestic Service Industry in Canada635Marginalized and Dissident Non-Citizens: Foreign Domestic Workers866Marginalized and Dissident Citizens: Nurses of Colour1077The Global Citizenship Divide and the Negotiation of Legal Rights1408Dissident Transnational Citizenship: Resistance, Solidarity and Organization157Notes169Bibliography212Index228
