Situating South Asian immigrant women in the Canadian/global economy

ID:	HARP-416
Title:	Situating South Asian immigrant women in the Canadian/global economy
Source:	Canadian Woman Studies , v.18(1) Spr’98 pg 26-33
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Year:	1998
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Keywords:	Canada, economic, social, and cultural rights, employment, gender equality, globalization, human rights, labor management, movement and residency, woman, feminist, civil and political rights, immigration, Third World countries, minority rights
Abstract:	Feminist efforts to understand the gendered meaning of current global political, social, and economic restructuring have revealed the centrality of immigrant and “Third World” women’s labour in these processes. It is increasingly becoming apparent that the ideological construction of these women together with their socio- economic conditions and politico-legal situation makes them particularly suitable for the “flexibilization” requirements of capitalist transnational corporations, i.e., casualized part-time work in sweatshops, garment factories or homeworking, as well as “cheap” labour in the growing service industries of advanced capitalist states, including Canada.
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