Transnational family exchanges in senior Canadian immigrant families
Authors: Nancy Mandell, Katharine King, Valerie Preston, Natalie Weiser, Ann Kim, and Meg Luxton
Editors: Guida Man and Rina Cohen
Overview
Abstract (English)
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.
Abstract (French)
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Details
Type | Book chapter |
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Author | Nancy Mandell, Katharine King, Valerie Preston, Natalie Weiser, Ann Kim, and Meg Luxton |
Editor | Guida Man and Rina Cohen |
Publication Year | 2015 |
Book Title | Transnational voices: Studies in family, work and identity |
Chapter Title | Transnational family exchanges in senior Canadian immigrant families |
Pages | 75-98 |
Publisher | Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
Publication Language | English |
- Nancy Mandell
- Nancy Mandell, Katharine King, Valerie Preston, Natalie Weiser, Ann Kim, and Meg Luxton
- Transnational family exchanges in senior Canadian immigrant families
- 2015
- Transnational voices: Studies in family, work and identity
- Guida Man and Rina Cohen
- 75-98
- Wilfrid Laurier University Press