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Home economics : nationalism and the making of 'migrant workers' in Canada
- Title
- Home economics : nationalism and the making of 'migrant workers' in Canada / Nandita Sharma.
- Author
- Sharma, Nandita Rani, 1964-
- Publication
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2006], ©2006.
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- Description
- xv, 216 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "A massive shift has taken place in Canadian immigration since the 1970s: the majority of migrants no longer enter as permanent residents but as temporary migrant workers. In Home Economics, Nandita Sharma shows how Canadian policies on citizenship and immigration contribute to the entrenchment of a system of apartheid where those categorized as 'migrant workers' live, work, pay taxes, and sometimes die in Canada, but are subjected to a legal regime that renders them perennial outsiders in relation to Canadian society."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-202) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Home(lessness) and the naturalization of 'difference' -- 2. Globalization and the story of national sovereignty -- 3. Imagined states : the ideology of 'national society' -- 4. Canadian parliamentary discourse and the making of 'migrant workers' -- 5. Canada's non-immigrant employment authorization program (NIEAP) : the social organization of unfreedom for 'migrant workers' -- 6. Rejecting global apartheid : an essay on the refusal of 'difference'.
- ISBN
- 0802038409 (bound)
- 0802048838 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 9780802048837
- 9780802038401
- OCLC
- ocm61427334
- SCSB-5924239
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries