Description
Book SynopsisThis is the first collection in Canada to provide a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of transnationalism.
Trade ReviewTransnational Identities and Practices in Canada establishes the need for discussing ethnicity not just in relation to the Canadian nation-state (as it has been treated so far), but also in relation to the connections that ethnic groups maintain with other locations. In fact, each contributor points towards new directions for research that would offer a better understanding of transnationalism in the Canadian context. -- Dana Patrascu-Kingsley * Canadian Ethnic Studies, Vol. XXXVIII, no. 2, 2006 *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Meaning and Significance of Transnationalism: Conceptual, Theoretical, and Research Issues / Lloyd Wong and Vic Satzewich
Part 1: Transnationalism in Historical and Political Perspective
1. The Politics of Transnationalism: Comparative Perspectives / Sarah V. Wayland
2. Transnationalism and the Age of Mass Migration, 1880s to 1920s / Christiane Harzig and Dirk Hoerder
3. Unmaking a Transnational Community: Japanese Canadian Families in Wartime Canada / Pamela Sugiman
Part 2: Contemporary Patterns
4. Characteristics of Immigrant Transnationalism in Vancouver / Daniel Hiebert and David Ley
5. Transnational Urbanism: Toronto at a Crossroads / Valerie Preston, Audrey Kobayashi, and Myer Siemiatycki
6. Contentious Politics and Transnationalism from Below: The Case of Ethnic and Racialized Minorities in Quebec / Micheline Labelle, François Rocher, and Ann-Marie Field
7. The Caribbean Community in Canada: Transnational Connections and Transformations / Alan B. Simmons and Dwaine E. Plaza
8. The Maple-Neem Nexus: Transnational Links of South Asian Canadians / Dhiru Patel
9. The Invisible Transnationals? Americans in Canada / Kim Matthews and Vic Satzewich
10. Latin American Transnationalism in Canada: Does It Exist, What Forms Does It Take, and Where Is It Going? / Luin Goldring
11. The New "In-Between" Peoples: Southern-European Transnationalism / Luis L.M. Aguiar
12. Whose Transnationalism? Canada, "Clash of Civilizations" Discourse, and Arab and Muslim Canadians / Sedef Arat-Koc
13. Chinese Transnationalism: Class and Capital Flows / Lloyd Wong and Connie Ho
14. Raising the Iron Curtain: Transnationalism and the Croatian Diaspora since the Collapse of 1989 / Daphne Winland
15. Canadian Jewry and Transnationalism: Israel, Anti-Semitism, and the Jewish Diaspora / Stuart Schoenfeld, William Shaffir, and Morton Weinfeld
Conclusion / Vic Satzewich and Lloyd Wong
References; Contributors; Index
