Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System

by Abigail B. Bakan and Daiva K. Stasiulis

Book Overview

While the designated rights of capital to travel freely across borders have increased under neo-liberal globalization, the citizenship rights of many people, particularly the most vulnerable, have tended to decline. Using Canada as an example of a major recipient state of international migrants, Negotiating Citizenship considers how migrant women workers from two settings in the global South-the West Indies and the Philippines-have attempted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802079156
• ISBN13: 9780802079152
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"