Organizing the Transnational

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Luin Goldring and Sailaja Krishnamurti

Part 1: Institutions, Policies, and Identities

1 State and Media Construction of Transnational Communities: A Case Study of Recent Migration from Hong Kong to Canada / Myer Siemiatycki and Valerie Preston

2 Emerging Postnational Citizenships in International Law: Implications for Transnational Lives and Organizing / Susan J. Henders

3 Transnational Nationalism: Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada / Sarah V. Wayland

4 Demystifying Transnationalism: Canadian Immigration Policy and the Promise of Nation Building / Uzma Shakir

5 On Tim Hortons and Transnationalism: Negotiating Canadianness and the Role of Activist/Researcher / Leela Viswanathan

Part 2: States, Transnational Labour, and Diasporic Capital

6 Globalizing Work, Globalizing Citizenship: Community–Migrant Worker Alliances in Southwestern Ontario / Kerry Preibisch

7 Forcing Governments to Govern in Defence of Noncitizen Workers: A Story about the Canadian Labour Movement’s Alliance with Agricultural Migrants / Stan Raper

8 Transnationalism, Development, and Social Capital: Tamil Community Networks in Canada / R. Cheran

9 Dancing Here, “Living” There: Transnational Lives and Working Conditions of Latina Migrant Exotic Dancers / Gloria Patricia and Díaz Barrero

10 Transnational Work and the Labour Politics of Gender: A Study of Male and Female Mexican Migrant Workers Employed in Canada / Ofelia Becerril

11 Development and Diasporic Capital: Nonresident Indians and the State / Pablo S. Bose

Part 3: Transnational Organizing and Social Change

12 The Institutional Landscapes of Salvadoran Refugee Migration: Transnational and Local Views from Los Angeles and Toronto / Patricia Landolt

13 The South Asia Left Democratic Alliance: The Dilemmas of a Transnational Left / Aparna Sundar

14 Transnationalism and Political Participation among Filipinos in Canada / Philip F. Kelly

15 Transnational Organizing in the Americas / Rusa Jeremic

16 The Challenges of Extraterritorial Participation: Peru’s Advisory Councils for Peruvians Abroad / Gaby Motta and Carlos Enrique Terry (with Luin Goldring)

Conclusion / Sailaja Krishnamurti and Luin Goldring

References; Contributors; Index