Outside and In-Between: Theorizing Asian-Canadian Exclusion and the Challenges of Identity Formation

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46138-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 190, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 597 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

Asian 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Torres, Rose Ann

Leung, Kailan

Soepriatna, Vania

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgement

About the Contributors

Introduction

Rose Ann Torres, Kailan Leung, Vania Soepriatna

Chapters

Section I: 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

Section II: Race, Gender, Diversity, Work

5. South Asian Women Migrants Living in Canada: 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

Section III: 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

Section IV: 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 and Interrogating Resistances in a Multicultural National Master Narrative

Grace Garlow

18. Filipina Activism From a Transnational Theoretical Framework

Rose Ann Torres

19. Framework for Developing Resilience Among Filipino-Canadian Youth During Covid-19 Pandemic

Valerie Gail Damasco, Rose Ann Torres

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Rose Ann Torres, Ph.D. (2012), University of Toronto, is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social Science at the University of New Brunswick Saint John. She has published books and many articles on Asian, African, Indigenous, and Women and Gender studies.

Kailan Leung is an international educator, currently teaching and coordinating service learning initiatives at a K-12 school in Vancouver, BC. He holds a MEd degree from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, as well as a BA in English Literature from McGill University. His interests include cross-cultural identity formation, Third Culture Kids, and international education.

Vania Soepriatna is an Indonesian international student in Canada. She is currently pursuing an Education Doctorate in Social Justice Education and Comparative, International, and Developmental Education at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Her research so far has focused on diasporic identities within the international student body in higher education institutions.