Negotiating Citizenship

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Negotiating Citizenship

   • Daiva K. Stasiulis, Abigail B. Bakan

   Pages 1-10

3. Negotiating Citizenship in an Era of Globalization

   • Daiva K. Stasiulis, Abigail B. Bakan

   Pages 11-39

4. Underdevelopment, Structural Adjustment and Gendered Migration from the West Indies and the Philippines

   • Daiva K. Stasiulis, Abigail B. Bakan

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5. Gatekeepers in the Domestic Service Industry in Canada

   • Daiva K. Stasiulis, Abigail B. Bakan

   Pages 63-85

6. Marginalized and Dissident Non-Citizens: Foreign Domestic Workers

   • Daiva K. Stasiulis, Abigail B. Bakan

   Pages 86-106

7. Marginalized and Dissident Citizens: Nurses of Colour

   • Daiva K. Stasiulis, Abigail B. Bakan

   Pages 107-139

8. The Global Citizenship Divide and the Negotiation of Legal Rights

   • Daiva K. Stasiulis, Abigail B. Bakan

   Pages 140-156

9. Dissident Transnational Citizenship: Resistance, Solidarity and Organization

   • Daiva K. Stasiulis, Abigail B. Bakan

   Pages 157-168

10. Back Matter

    Pages 169-233

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Negotiating Citizenship explores the growing inequalities associated with nation-based citizenship from the perspective of migrant women workers who have made their way from impoverished Third World countries to work in Canada in the caregiving industries of domestic service and nursing. The study demonstrates the impact of the global political economy, public and private gatekeeping mechanisms, and racialized and gendered stereotypes on the contested relationship between citizen-employers and non-citizen female migrant workers in Canada.

• adjustment
• economy
• gender
• globalization
• migration
• political economy
• Third World
• women
• work

• Carleton University, Canada

  Daiva K. Stasiulis

• Queen’s University, Canada

  Abigail B. Bakan

ABIGAIL B. BAKAN is Professor of Political Studies at Queen's University. Recent publications include Critical Political Studies: Debates and Dialogues from the Left (edited with Eleanor MacDonald), and Employment Equity Policy in Canada: An Interprovincial Comparison (with Audrey Kobayashi). Her areas of research include employment equity policy in Canada, Third World immigrant women, globalization and the politics of Caribbean development.

DAIVA STASIULIS is Professor of Sociology at Carleton University. Her publications include Unsettling Settler Societies: Articulations of Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Class (with Nira Yuval-Davis). Her current research examines children's citizenship and the sexualisation of children in popular culture.

Abigail B. Bakan and Daiva K. Stasiulis have jointly edited Not One of the Family: Foreign Domestic Workers in Canada.

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