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Twice Migrated, Twice Displaced

Twice Migrated, Twice Displaced

Indian and Pakistani Transnational Households in Canada

by Tania Das Gupta

Published by: University of British Columbia Press

Imprint: UBC Press

214 Pages, 152.00 × 229.00 mm, 14 tables

Paperback
9780774865678
Published: August 2022

£26.99

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Hardcover
9780774865661
Published: December 2021

£72.00

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Twice Migrated, Twice Displaced explores the lives of Gulf South Asians who arrived in the Greater Toronto Area from India and Pakistan via Persian Gulf countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Tania Das Gupta reveals the multiple migration patterns of this unique group, analyzing themes such as gender, racial, and religious discrimination; class mobility; the formation of transnational families; and identities in a post-9/11 context.

Twice Migrated, Twice Displaced concludes that neoliberal economies in South Asia, the Gulf, and Canada create conditions for flexible labour by privatizing and diminishing social welfare. As migrants then search for employment, families are split across borders – making those relationships more precarious. The ambivalent, hybrid identities that result have implications for Canada in terms of community building, diaspora, citizenship, and migrants' sense of belonging.

Introduction

1 Locating the Transnational within a Racialized, Gendered, Neo-Liberal Global Capitalism

2 "Western Comforts and Eastern culture": The First Migration to the Gulf

3 "We Did Not Land in the Ground; We Landed in the Ditch": The Second Migration to Canada

4 Hybrid, Flexible and Reactive Identities

5 Two-step Migrations, Split Families and Ambivalent Canadians

Conclusion

Appendix 1: Overview of Interviewees in the Study Appendix 2: Informed Consent Form

Appendix 3: Interview Guide for the Twice Migrated from South Asia

Appendix 4: Informed Consent Form

Appendix 5: Interview guide for Twice Migrated Youth

Notes; References; index

Tania Das Gupta is a professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, York University. She is currently also the Affirmative Action, Equity, and Inclusivity Officer there. She is the author of Real Nurses and Others: Racism in Nursing and Racism and Paid Work, and co-editor, with Carl E. James, Chris Andersen, Grace-Edward Galabuzi, and Roger C.A. Maaka, of Race and Racialization: Essential Readings. She has long experience in community work with immigrant women and anti-racism, and has acted as a consultant for human rights lawyers and nurses' groups on numerous cases of racial harassment.

"Twice Migrated, Twice Displaced may highlight the experiences of those who have settled in Toronto. But through its tight focus, it brings larger dynamics, playing out across the country, vividly to life." - Elaine Coburn, York University (Literary Review of Canada) Tania Das Gupta has published a powerful book that will capture the attention of anyone interested in the topic of migration, not only in Canada, but worldwide. - Paul May, Department of Political Science, Universite du Quebec a Montreal (Ethnic and Racial Studies)