Description
Book SynopsisAsian Canadians—whether immigrant, international students, naturalized, native-born, or other—are hampered in their exploration and articulation of self by the dearth of critical writing both for them, and by them. Despite the influx of Asian students and their inflated tuition rates to Canadian postsecondary institutions, they are strikingly underrepresented in the literature of the academy. Critical theory focusing on Asian identity, anti-Asian racism, and the Asian-Canadian experience is limited, or presented as an artifact of the past.
Across the globe—but particularly in the English-speaking West—the internationalization of higher education continues its upward trend. 2017 data from the Canadian Bureau for International Education positioned Canada as the fourth-leading destination for international students seeking post-secondary education. The fact that the vast majority of international students at Canadian colleges and universities come from Asia has been well documented in domestic media, but the lived experiences and perspectives of these transnational individuals have not. This edited collection provides much-needed theorizing of Asian-Canadian lived experiences, focusing on such themes as: multiculturalism, diversity, race, culture, agency, education, community activism, citizenship, identity, model minority myths, gender, colonization, neoliberalism, and others.
Contributors include: Sarah Alam, Syed Fahad Ali, Wallis Caldoza, Valerie G. Damasco, Grace Garlow, Allison Lam, Kailan Leung, Juanna Nguyen, Dionisio Nyaga, Jasmine Pham, Vania Soepriatna, Tika Ram Thapa and Rose Ann Torres.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Rose Ann Torres, Kailan Leung and Vania Soepriatna
PART 1
Theorizing Asian Canada
1 Critical Reflexivity
Re-imagining Asian Canada
Rose Ann Torres and Dionisio Nyaga
2 Mixture and Movement
Reflections on Identity, Power and Border Crossing through the Process of Currere
Kailan Leung
3 Transnational Labour Migration of Filipino Nurses to Canada
An Organized Historical, Institutional and Social Process
Valerie G. Damasco
4 Theorizing Asian Canada
Rose Ann Torres
PART 2
Race, Gender, Multiculturalism, Work
5 South Asian Women Migrants Living in Canadabr/> Prospects and Challenges in the Labor Market
Sarah Alam
6 Unmapping Diasporic Pilipina Geographies
Rose Ann Torres and Dionisio Nyaga
7 Reciprocity Policies and Institutional Practices as Exclusionary Exceptions
Filipino Nurses as Recruited and Excluded Subjects
Valerie G. Damasco
8 OutsourcEd
International Practicums as Responses to Internationalization in Canadian Teacher Education
Kailan Leung
9 Why I Don’t Talk about Being Filipino (I Think)
Wallis Caldoza (in thought with Peyton Caldoza)
PART 3
Citizenship, Multiculturalism, Culture, Identity
10 The Multicultural Façade
A Colonial Performance of Diversity in Canada and Indonesia
Vania Soepriatna
11 Impact and Implications of Rap and Hip-Hop Music as a Form of Resistance
Juanna Nguyen
12 “L’Autore Ha Musicato Fin Qui, Poi è Morto”
Allison Lam
13 South Asian Representations in the Media
Repetition or Progress?
Syed Fahad Ali
14 The Fallacy of Native-Speakerism in English Language Education
Jasmine Pham
PART 4
Community Resistance and Activism>
15 Feminization of Pandemics
Experiences of Filipino Women in the Health Care System
Rose Ann Torres
16 Multiculturalism
A Case for Continued Resistance for Space for Race
Tika Ram Thapa
17 Brokering Belonging, Shattering Silence and Interrogating Resistances
Grace Garlow
18 Filipina Activism from a Transnational Theoretical Framework
Rose Ann Torres
19 Framework for Developing Resilience among Filipino-Canadian Youth during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Valerie G. Damasco and Rose Ann Torres
Index
