Engendering Transnational Voices

Studies in Family, Work, and Identity

Guida Man, Rina Cohen, Guida Man, Rina Cohen

• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781771121132
• eBook ISBN: 9781771120876
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Emigration & Immigration
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Engendering Transnational Voices
• PART I: EXPERIENCING TRANSNATIONAL FAMILY LIVES
• PART II: NEGOTIATING TRANSNATIONAL CARE WORK
• PART III: CONSTRUCTING TRANSNATIONAL CULTURAL IDENTITIES
• PART IV: CONTESTING HEGEMONIC DISCOURSES AND RESHAPING TRANSNATIONAL SOCIAL SPACES
• Contributors
• Index