Title: Daily struggles : the deepening racialization and feminization of poverty in Canada /
Authors: Kwok, Siu-ming.; Wallis, Maria A.
Publisher: Canadian Scholars' Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Poor women Canada.; Minorities Canada Economic conditions.; Poverty Social aspects Canada.; Femmes pauvres Canada.; Minorités Canada Conditions économiques.; Pauvreté Aspect social Canada.; Canada Economic conditions.
Abstract: "Daily Struggles offers a unique, critical perspective on poverty by highlighting gender and race analyses simultaneously. Unlike previously published Canadian books in this field, this book connects human rights, political economy perspectives, and citizenship issues to other areas of social exclusion." "This new book is ideally suited for a wide variety of sociology, social work, and political science courses in the areas of social inequality and stratification, poverty, social policy and welfare, gender, race and ethnicity, and anti-racism."--Jacket.
Contents: The market value and social value of race / Peter S. Li -- Representation of the immigrant / Rose Baaba Folson -- Selling (out) diversity in an age of globalization / Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Christina Gabriel -- Regulating Native identity by gender / Bonita Lawrence -- Social exclusion: socio-economic and political implications of the racialized gap / Grace-Edward Galabuzi -- Homeworking: dream realized or freedom constrained? The globalized reality of immigrant garment workers / Roxana Ng -- Immigrant women workers in the immigrant settlement sector / Jo-Anne Lee -- Home(lessness) and the naturalization of "difference" / Nandita Sharma -- Foreign credentials in Canada's multicultural society / Lorne Foster -- Racism/anti-racism, precarious employment, and unions / Tania Das Gupta -- The racialized impact of welfare fraud control in British Columbia and Ontario / Kiran Mirchandani and Wendy Chan -- Data, denials, and confusion: the racial profiling debate in Toronto / Scot Wortley and Julian Tanner -- Delinquency of Asian youth in Canada / Siu-ming Kwok and Dora Mei-Ying Tam -- War frenzy / Sunera Thobani -- If low-income women of colour counted in Toronto / Punam Khosla -- Gendered racial violence and spatialized justice: the murder of Pamela George / Sherene H. Razack -- The social construction of a "Drop-out": dispelling the myth / George J. Sefa Dei -- Individual freedom as a social commitment / Amartya Sen -- A national strategy to address the racialization and feminization of poverty.