Description
Book SynopsisLalaie Ameeriar follows the experiences of immigrant Pakistani women in Toronto who—despite being skilled, white-collar workers—suffer high levels of unemployment and poverty and who are advised by government-sanctioned worker programs to conform to an embodied form of multiculturalism that privileges whiteness and erases difference.
Trade Review“Ameeriar’s book echoes an important refrain from diasporic feminist scholars, insisting that despite the various scales at which disenfranchisement and violence function, migrant women resourcefully find ways to persist.” -- Kareem Khubchandani * Journal of Asian American Studies *
“Radically subversive, superbly written.” -- Pnina Werbner * Pacific Affairs *
"Of interest to scholars of citizenship and governance, globalization and neoliberalism, gender and embodiment, multiculturalism and race, this book is a rich read for its deployment of analytical concepts and the creation of two new ones: pedagogies of affect and sanitized sensorium." -- Alison Shaw * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. Bodies and Bureaucracies 25
2. Pedagogies of Affect 53
3. Sanitizing Citizenship 75
4. Racializing South Asia 101
5. The Catastrophic Present 127
Conclusion 153
Notes 169
References 181
Index 201
