A Closer Look at Immigrant Work in the Global North : The Experiences of a Filipinx Canadian Immigrant

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A Closer Look at Immigrant Work in the Global North : The Experiences of a Filipinx Canadian Immigrant Reyes, Divine

Abstract

An important aspect of Asian diasporic discussion within a capitalist system is the intersection of labour politics, gender, and racialization. For a long time, the provision of care-taker labour in Canada, whether in terms of medical care or domestic care, has been disproportionately shouldered by racialized women and femmes…particularly those with more complex migration histories because of the broader economic relationship between the Global North and the Global South characterized by one-sided exploitation. In Divine’s interview, her mother speaks about her experience creating and living and exercising agency within a predatory economic system and the difficulties that all of that entails. Have you noticed this kind of intersectional breakdown of care-taker labour around you?

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Title	A Closer Look at Immigrant Work in the Global North : The Experiences of a Filipinx Canadian Immigrant
Creator	Reyes, Divine
Date Issued	2023-04-18
Description	An important aspect of Asian diasporic discussion within a capitalist system is the intersection of labour politics, gender, and racialization. For a long time, the provision of care-taker labour in Canada, whether in terms of medical care or domestic care, has been disproportionately shouldered by racialized women and femmes…particularly those with more complex migration histories because of the broader economic relationship between the Global North and the Global South characterized by one-sided exploitation. In Divine’s interview, her mother speaks about her experience creating and living and exercising agency within a predatory economic system and the difficulties that all of that entails. Have you noticed this kind of intersectional breakdown of care-taker labour around you?
Genre	Report
Type	Text
Language	eng
Series	University of British Columbia. ACAM 320B
Date Available	2023-09-26
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0436890
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/86025
Affiliation	Arts, Faculty of; Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, Institute for
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Undergraduate
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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