The New African Diaspora in Vancouver : Migration, Exclusion and Belonging /

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Creese reveals that the routine discounting of previous education by potential employers, the demeaning of African accents and bodies by society at large, cultural pressures to reshape gender relations and parenting practices, and the absence of extended families often contribute to downward mobilit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Creese, Gillian Laura, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo [N.Y.] : University of Toronto Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Race relations.
Emigration and immigration.
Africans > Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Cultural Heritage.
Africains > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver > Conditions sociales.
Africains > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver > Conditions sociales > Études de cas.
Noirs canadiens > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver > Conditions sociales > Études de cas.
Black Canadians > British Columbia > Vancouver > Social conditions > Case studies.
Africans > British Columbia > Vancouver > Social conditions.
British Columbia > Vancouver.
British Columbia.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Afrique subsaharienne > Émigration et immigration.
Colombie-Britannique > Émigration et immigration > Cas, Études de.
Afrique subsaharienne > Émigration et immigration > Études de cas.
Africa, Sub-Saharan > Emigration and immigration > Case studies.
British Columbia > Emigration and immigration.
Africa, Sub-Saharan > Emigration and immigration.
Vancouver (B.C.) > Race relations.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Migration, Diaspora Spaces, and 'Canadianness'
  • 1 A New African Diaspora
  • 2 Erasing Linguistic Capital
  • 3 Downward Mobility, Class Dislocation, and Labour Market Barriers
  • 4 Reproducing Difference at Work
  • 5 Gender, Families, and Transitions
  • 6 Identity and Spaces of Belonging
  • 7 Practices of Belonging: Building the African Community in Vancouver.

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