Twice Migrated, Twice Displaced : Indian and Pakistani Transnational Households in Canada

Tania Das Gupta

ISBN 10: 0774865660 / ISBN 13: 9780774865661

Published by University Of British Columbia Press Feb 2022, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Twice Migrated, Twice Displaced : Indian and Pakistani Transnational Households in Canada
• Publisher: University Of British Columbia Press Feb 2022
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774865660
• ISBN 13: 9780774865661
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 0D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 0 millimeters depth
• Weight: 470 grams

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Synopsis

Twice Migrated, Twice Displaced explores the lives of Gulf South Asians who arrived in the Greater Toronto Area from India and Pakistan via Persian Gulf countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Tania Das Gupta reveals the multiple migration patterns of this unique group, analyzing themes such as gender, racial, and religious discrimination; class mobility; the formation of transnational families; and identities in a post-9/11 context.

Twice Migrated, Twice Displaced concludes that neoliberal economies in South Asia, the Gulf, and Canada create conditions for flexible labour by privatizing and diminishing social welfare. As migrants then search for employment, families are split across borders – making those relationships more precarious. The ambivalent, hybrid identities that result have implications for Canada in terms of community building, diaspora, citizenship, and migrants’ sense of belonging.

About the Author

Tania Das Gupta is a professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, York University. She is currently also the Affirmative Action, Equity, and Inclusivity Officer there. She is the author of Real Nurses and Others: Racism in Nursing and Racism and Paid Work, and co-editor, with Carl E. James, Chris Andersen, Grace-Edward Galabuzi, and Roger C.A. Maaka, of Race and Racialization: Essential Readings. She has long experience in community work with immigrant women and anti-racism, and has acted as a consultant for human rights lawyers and nurses’ groups on numerous cases of racial harassment.