Living Beyond the Borders - Essays on Global Immigrants and Refugees

Cross-border migration has resulted in many social, cultural, economic, and political challenges that need attention. Globalization, migration, and transnationalism have a strong impact on the lives of diasporic immigrants and refugees. Transnationalism and diaspora, which result from globalization and migration, create transnational social spaces, fields, and formations that affect the everyday practices and engagements of migrants and refugees. Living Beyond the Borders highlights the Canadian immigration policies and the challenges faced by migrants, particularly visible minorities. The book further presents multiple perspectives and arguments on how immigrants and refugees react to their "new home" in the north and how they maintain memories of their country of origin.
The contributors to this volume analyze the impact of transnational lives on the identity construction of migrants and how they acquire and negotiate their multiple identities. The book further interrogates these identities by questioning the experiences of immigrants and refugees living precarious lives in their country of permanent or temporary settlement. This book contributes knowledge and literature that is intended for academic scholars, researchers, and undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of immigration studies, global studies, sociology, political science, development studies, and interdisciplinary studies. Its multidisciplinary approach has significant value to readers, as it integrates perspectives on the multidimensionality and complexity of transnational migration, settlement, and integration in the contemporary globalized world.

List of contents

List of Figures - List of Tables - Preface - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Edward Shizha: Introduction: Globalization, Migration, and Transnational Formations - Part One: Canada's Immigration and Multicultural Studies - Andrew Newton: Canadian Immigration Policy: The Search for Solutions - Ebony Evans: Canada's Shift in Immigration Policy: The Neglect of Refugee Claimants - Margarita Enriquez: Current Multiculturalism Ethos in Canada - Part Two: Home, Belongingness, and Identities - Dalia Elawad: Cosmopolitanism and the Future of Fragmented Hybrid Identities - May Mahrat/Doaa Shalabi - The Integration of Syrian Refugees in Canada: Role of Social Capital and Acculturation - Alison Gupta: Ambivalence of Home in the Formation of Transnational and Diasporic Identities - Virginia Pecjak: Nostalgia, Diaspora, and Cultural Memory Among Former Yugoslavians - Madeline McCaffrey: The Diasporic Pilgrimage: Finding Identity Through Tertiary Memory - Nicola Mason: Psychoanalytic Reading of Diasporic Subjectivity and Narratives of Return Migration - Tolulope Helen Ojo/Edward Shizha: Ethnic Enclaves in Canada: Opportunities and Challenges of Residing Within - Part Three: Sexuality and Transnational Sexual Identities - Caitlin Harding: Globalization and Sexual Minority Right: A Fear of Foreign Influence - Heather Shilton: The Migration Double Standard: Sexist Rhetoric in Familial Expectations of Female Migrants - Rosemary Kimani-Dupuis: Who Am I and Where Is Here? Refugee Mothers and the Search for Maternal Identity in Canada - Priscilla Broni: Global Extensions: Turning Faith Into Transnational Fashion - Part Four: Global, Transnational, Migrant Workers - Rachel Bangura: Female Labour Migration: Analysis of Mexican Transnational Families Davian Myers: Rethinking the Abjection of Migrant Workers in Canada - Contributors.

About the author

Edward Shizha has a PhD in sociology of education from the University of Alberta and is an associate professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. He has published eleven books and several chapters and articles. Rosemary Kimani-Dupuis is a PhD candidate at Wilfrid Laurier University, while Priscilla Broni recently completed her MA in cultural analysis and social theory at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Summary

The book presents multiple perspectives and arguments on how immigrants and refugees react to their 'new home' in the North and how they maintain memories of their country of origin.

Product details

• Assisted by: Priscilla Broni (Editor), Rosemary Kimani-Dupuis (Editor), Edward Shizha (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781433148668
• ISBN: 978-1-4331-4866-8
• No. of pages: 286
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 21 mm x 225 mm
• Weight: 540 g
• Illustrations: 8 Abb.
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science