Overview

Daily Struggles offers a unique, critical perspective on poverty by highlighting gender and race analyses simultaneously. Unlike previously published Canadian books in this field, this book connects human rights, political economy perspectives, and citizenship issues to other areas of social exclusion, such as class, sexuality, and disability. Masterfully edited and presented in a logical, student-friendly fashion, Daily Struggles opens with theoretical frameworks that examine the racialization processes at work in Canada, with special attention to the consequences relevant to gender. The social construction of """"race"""" and its subsequent devaluation and marginalization has several economic consequences for racialized individuals, especially racialized women. In section two, the economic consequences of race and gender are profiled, while the third section looks at how poverty, race, and gender are criminalized. The text also examines other ways in which racialized people—specifically women—are socially constructed to experience their lives as second-class Canadian citizens. The fourth and final section presents additional consequences of the racialized and gendered nature of poverty—consequences that have a fundamental impact on quality of life. This new book is ideally suited for a wide variety of sociology, social work, and political science courses in the areas of social inequality and stratification, poverty, social policy and welfare, gender, race and ethnicity, and anti-racism.

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Author:   Maria A. Wallis ,  Siu-Ming Kwok
Publisher:   Canadian Scholars
Imprint:   Canadian Scholars
Weight:   0.515kg
ISBN:  

9781551303390

ISBN 10:   1551303396
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   30 April 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Part I: Theoretical Framework Chapter 1: The Market Value and Social Value of Race, Peter S. Li Chapter 2: Representation of the Immigrant, Rose Baaba Folson Chapter 3: Selling (out) Diversity in an Age of Globalization, Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Christina Gabriel Chapter 4: Regulating Native Identity by Gender, Bonita Lawrence Part II: Economic Inequality and Social Exclusion Chapter 5: Social Exclusion: Socio-economic and Political Implications of the Racialized Gap, Grace-Edward Galabuzi Chapter 6: Homeworking: Dream Realized-The Globalized Reality, Roxana Ng Chapter 7: Immigrant Women Workers in the Immigrant Settlement Sector, Jo-Ann Lee Chapter 8: Home(lessness) and the Naturalization of Difference, Nandita Sharma Chapter 9: Foreign Credentials in Canada's Multicultural Society, Lorne Foster Chapter 10: Racism/Anti-racism, Precarious Employment, and Unions, Tania Das Gupta Part III: Crime, Policing, Surveillance, and Social Exclusion Chapter 11: The Racialized Impact of Welfare Fraud Control in British Columbia and Ontario, Kiran Mirchandani and Wendy Chan Chapter 12: Data, Denials, and Confusion: The Racial Profiling Debate in Toronto, Scot Wortley and Julian Tanner Chapter 13: Delinquency of Asian Youth in Canada, Siu-ming Kwok and Dora Mei-Ying Tam Chapter 14: War Frenzy, Sunera Thobani Part IV: Other Exclusion and Inequality Chapter 15: If Low-Income Women of Colour Counted in Toronto, Punam Khosla Chapter 16: Gendered Racial Violence and Spatialized Justice: The Murder of Pamela George, Sherene Razack Chapter 17: The Social Construction of a """"Drop-out"""": Dispelling the Myth, George J. Sefa Dei Chapter 18: Individual Freedom as a Social Commitment, Amartya Sen Conclusion: A National Strategy to Address the Racialization and Feminization of Poverty Appendix A: Canada's Action Plan against Racism Appendix B: U.N. Definition of Poverty"

Reviews

"This collection is valuable in pulling together a range of readings in critical political economy and the racialized labour market. It presents a useful feminist political economy approach to issues of racialized inequality in Canada. Many instructors will find this collection helpful, primarily because it offers a strongly feminist focus."""" - Sylvia Hale, Chair, Department of Sociology, St. Thomas University"

This collection is valuable in pulling together a range of readings in critical political economy and the racialized labour market. It presents a useful feminist political economy approach to issues of racialized inequality in Canada. Many instructors will find this collection helpful, primarily because it offers a strongly feminist focus. -- Sylvia Hale, Chair, Department of Sociology, St. Thomas University

Author Information

Maria A. Wallis holds a Ph.D. in Sociology, with specialties in anti-racism and social inequality. She has taught at King’s University College at Western University, McMaster University, Wilfrid Laurier University and York University. Siu Ming Kwok is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at King's University College at Western University.

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