num_pages: 189
description: This book uses gendered stories of displacement and re-settlement to interrogate our understanding of social suffering and justice. Parin Dossa, an anthropologist, argues that systemic inequity and exclusionary practices impact the health and well-being of marginalized people. Using narrative accounts of Canadian Iranian women, this book links individual experiences of migration to social and political factors. Dossa challenges conventional thinking that interprets social suffering in terms of personal stake and individual accountability. She questions the ways in which racialized and gendered inequality in Canada are perceived as cultural difference instead of social oppression.
language: English
title: Politics and Poetics of Migration: Narratives of Iranian Women from the Diaspora
titlecomplete: Politics and Poetics of Migration: Narratives of Iranian Women from the Diaspora
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Canadian Scholars Press