Home Economics
Subtitle: Nationalism and the Making of æMigrant WorkersÆ in Canada
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: March 11, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780802038401
Subjects: Immigration & emigration; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Social Science; Emigration & Immigration; Sociology; Canada; Social Work; Social Science / Emigration & Immigration; Capitalism; Alien labor; Globalization; Government policy
First sentence: The process of making and maintaining national borders is integral to the material, existential, and ideological practices that organize the contemporary exercise of power.
Description: "A massive shift has taken place in Canadian immigration since the 1970s: the majority of migrants no longer enter as permanent residents but as temporary migrant workers. In Home Economics, Nandita Sharma shows how Canadian policies on citizenship and immigration contribute to the entrenchment of a system of apartheid where those categorized as 'migrant workers' live, work, pay taxes, and sometimes die in Canada, but are subjected to a legal regime that renders them perennial outsiders in relation to Canadian society."--Jacket.