Not One of the Family

Foreign Domestic Workers in Canada

176 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In Not One of the Family, experts on foreign domestic workers and workers-turned-activists document how the Canadian system has institutionalized unequal treatment of citizen and non-citizen workers. Since the 1940s, rights of citizenship for immigrant domestic workers in Canada have declined while the number of women recruited from Third World countries to work in Canadian homes has dramatically increased. The analysis in Not One of the Family is both theoretical to the practical, framing ideologies of privacy, maternalism, familialism, and rights, as well as examining government policy, labour organizing, and strategies to resist exploitation. A key resource for all centres for women and immigrant workers, Not One of the Family is also essential reading for civil rights and immigration lawyers, labour groups, and government policy makers.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Soziale und ethische Themen Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung
• ISBN: 9780802075956
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.09.1997
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Herausgegeben von: Daiva Stasiulis, Abigail Bakan