Roland Sintos Coloma, Bonnie S. McElhinny, Ethel Tungohan

Filipinos in Canada

Disturbing Invisibility

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Looking at these from the vantage points of anthropology, cultural studies, education, geography, history, information science, literature, political science, sociology, and women and gender studies, Filipinos in Canada provides a strong foundation for future work in this area.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 798g
• ISBN-13: 9781442645400
• ISBN-10: 1442645407
• Artikelnr.: 36184757

Autorenporträt

Roland Sintos Coloma is a professor and chair in the Department of Teacher Education at Northern Kentucky University.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Tables
Part I Difference and Recognition
Chapter 1 Spectres of In/visibility: Filipina/o Labour, Culture, and Youth
in Canada
Bonnie McElhinny (University of Toronto), Lisa M. Davidson (University of
Toronto), John Paul C. Catungal (University of Toronto), Ethel Tungohan
(University of Toronto), and Roland Sintos Coloma (University of Toronto)
Chapter 2 Filipino Canadians in the Twenty-First Century: The Politics of
Recognition in a Transnational Affect Economy
Eleanor Ty (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Chapter 3 Filipino Immigrants in the Toronto Labour Market: Towards a
Qualitative Understanding of Deprofessionalization
Philip F. Kelly (York University), Mila Astorga-Garcia (Community Alliance
for Social Justice), Enrico F. Esguerra (Community Alliance for Social
Justice), and the Community Alliance for Social Justice, Toronto
My Folks
Carlo Sayo (Sinag Bayan (Light of the Nation) Cultural Arts Collective)
and Jean Marc Daga (SIKLAB Ontario)
Part II Gender, Migration, and Labour
SCRAP
Reuben Sarumugam (Magkaisa Centre) and Bryan Taguba
Chapter 4 The Recruitment of Philippine-trained Healthcare Professionals to
Canada in the 1960s
Valerie G. Damasco (University of Toronto)
Chapter 5 The Rites of Passage of Filipinas in Canada: Two Migration
Cohorts
Josephine Eric (Migrant Workers Family Resource Centre)
Chapter 6 (Res)sentiment and Practices of Hope: The Labours of Filipina
Live-in Caregivers in Filipino Canadian Families
Lisa M. Davidson
Chapter 7 Debunking Notions of Migrant “Victimhood”: A Critical Assessment
of Temporary Labour Migration Programs and Filipina Migrant Activism in
Canada
Ethel Tungohan (University of Toronto)
Chapter 8 Toronto Filipino Businesses, Ethnic Identity, and Place Making in
the Diaspora
Cesar Polvorosa, Jr. (York University)
Chapter 9 Between Society and Individual, Structure and Agency, Optimism
and Pessimism: New Directions for Philippine Diasporic and Transnational
Studies
Leonora C. Angeles (University of British Columbia )
Part III Representation and Its Discontents
Balikbayan Express
Celia Correa (University of Toronto)
Chapter 10 Meet Me in Toronto: The Re-Exhibition of Artifacts from the 1904
Louisiana Purchase Exposition at the Royal Ontario Museum
Bonnie McElhinny
Chapter 11 From the Pearl of the Orient to Uptown: A Collaborative
Arts-Based Inquiry with Filipino Youth Activists in Montréal
Marissa Largo (University of Toronto)
Chapter 12 Borrowing Privileges: Tagalog, Filipinos, and the Toronto Public
Library
Vernon R. Totanes (University of Toronto)
Chapter 13 Abject Beings: Filipina/os in Canadian Historical Narrations
Roland Sintos Coloma
Chapter 14 Between the Sheets
Geraldine Pratt (University of British Columbia)
Part IV Youth Spaces and Subjectivities
Colour Correction
Eric Tigley (Youth Education through Interactive Arts)
Chapter 15 Scales of Violence from the Body to the Globe: Slain Filipino
Youth in Canadian Cities
John Paul C. Catungal
Chapter 16 Kapisanan: Resignifying Diasporic Post/colonial Art and Artists
Christine Balmes (University of Toronto)
Chapter 17 Educated Minorities: The Experiences of Filipino Canadian
University Students
Maureen Grace Mendoza
Chapter 18 “Mas Maputi Ako sa ‘yo” (“I’m lighter than you”): The Spatial
Politics of Intrarracial Colorism among Filipina/o Youth in the Greater
Toronto Area
Conely de Leon (York University)
Chapter 19 The Social Construction of “Filipino Studies”: Youth Spaces and
Subjectivities
Jeffrey P. Aguinaldo (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Part V Afterword
Chapter 20 Contemplating New Spaces in Canadian Studies
Minelle Mahtani (University of Toronto) and David Roberts (University of
Toronto)
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Endnotes
Index