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Filipinos in Canada : disturbing invisibility /
"The Philippines became Canada's largest source of short- and long-term migrants in 2010, surpassing China and India, both of which are more than ten times larger. The fourth-largest racialized minority group in the country, the Filipino community is frequently understood by such figures a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
[2012]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part One. Difference and recognition. 1. Spectres of in/visibility: Filipina/o labour, culture, and youth in Canada / Bonnie McElhinny, Lisa M. Davidson, John Paul C. Catungal, Ethel Tungohan, and Roland Sintos Coloma
- 2. Filipino Canadians in the twenty-first century: The politics of recognition in a transnational affect economy / Eleanor Ty
- 3. Filipino immigrants in the Toronto labour market: Towards a qualitative understanding of deprofessionalization / Philip F. Kelly, Mila Astorga-Garcia, Enrico F. Esguerra, and the Community Alliance for Social Justice, Toronto
- My folks / Carlo Sayo and Jean Marc Daga
- Part Two. Gender, migration, and labour. SCRAP / Reuben Sarumugam and Bryan Taguba
- 4. The recruitment of Filipino healthcare professionals to Canada in the 1960s / Valerie G. Damasco
- 5. The rites of passage of Filipinas in Canada: Two migration cohorts / Josephine Eric
- 6. (Res)sentiment and practices of hope: The labours of Filipina live-in caregivers in Filipino Canadian families / Lisa M. Davidson
- 7. Debunking notions of migrant "victimhood": A critical assessment of temporary labour migration programs and Filipina migrant activism in Canada / Ethel Tungohan
- 8. Toronto Filipino businesses, ethnic identity, and place making in the diaspora / Cesar Polvorosa, Jr.
- 9. Between society and individual, structure and agency, optimism and pessimism: New directions for Philippine diasporic and transnational studies / Leonora C. Angeles
- Part Three. Representation and its discontents. Balikbayan Express / Celia Correa
- 10. Meet me in Toronto: The re-exhibition of artifacts from the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition at the Royal Ontario Museum / Bonnie McElhinny
- 11. From the pearl of the Orient to uptown: A collaborative arts-based inquiry with Filipino youth activists in Montréal / Marissa Largo
- 12. Borrowing privileges: Tagalog, Filipinos, and the Toronto Public Library / Vernon R. Totanes
- 13. Abject beings: Filipina/os in Canadian historical narrations / Roland Sintos Coloma
- 14. Between the sheets / Geraldine Pratt
- Part Four. Youth Spaces and Subjectivities. Colour correction / Eric Tigley
- 15. Scales of violence from the body to the globe: Slain Filipino youth in Canadian cities / John Paul C. Catungal
- 16. Kapisanan: Resignifying diasporic post/colonial art and artists / Christine Balmes
- 17. Educated minorities: The experiences of Filipino Canadian university students / Maureen Grace Mendoza
- 18. "Mas Maputi Ako sa 'yo" ("I'm lighter than you"): The spatial politics of intrarracial colourism among Filipina/o youth in the greater Toronto area / Conely de Leon
- 19. The social construction of "Filipino studies": Youth spaces and subjectivities / Jeffrey P. Aguinaldo
- Part Five. Afterword. 20. Contemplating new spaces in Canadian studies / Minelle Mahtani and David Roberts.