Downwardly Global: Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora

Author/Contributor(s):	Ameeriar, Lalaie
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	03/10/2017
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Lalaie 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.