Transnational identities and practices in Canada

Wong, Lloyd L. (Lloyd Lee), 1950- (Added Author). Satzewich, Vic, 1961- (Added Author).

Summary: "This collection examines the transnational practices and identities of immigrant and ethnic communities in Canada. It looks at why members of these groups maintain ties with their homelands - whether real or imagined - and how those connections shape individual identities and community organizations. How does transnationalism establish or transform geographical, social, and ideological borders? Do homeland ties affect what it means to be "Canadian"? Do they reflect Canada's commitment to multiculturalism? Through analysis of the complex forces driving transnationalism, this comprehensive study focuses attention on an important, and arguably growing, dimension of Canadian social life." --back cover

Record details

ISBN: 0774812834
Physical Description: print
xii, 343 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, c2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references: p. ([299]-325) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: the meaning and significance of transnationalism / Lloyd Wong and Vic Satzewich -- The politics of transnationalism: compartive perspectives / Sarah V. Wayland -- Transnationalism and the age of mass migration, 1880s to 1920s / Christiane Harzig and Dirk Hoerder -- Unmaking a transnational community: Japanese Canadian families in wartime Canada / Pamela Sugiman -- Characteristics of immigrant transnationalism in Vancouver / Daniel Hiebert and David Ley -- Transnational urbanism: Toronto at a crossroads / Valerie Preston, Audrey Kobayashi, and Myer Siemiatycki -- Contentious politics and transnationalism from below: the case of ethnic and racialized minorities in Quebec / Micheline Labelle, Francois Rocher, and Ann-Marie Field -- The Caribbean community in Canada: transnational connections and transformations / Alan B. Simmons and Dwaine E. Plaza -- The Maple-Neem nexus: transnational links of South Asian Canadians / Dhiru Patel -- The invisible transnationals? Americans in Canada / Kim Matthews and Vic Satzewich -- Latin American transnationalism in Canada: does it exist, what forms does it take, and where is it going? / Luis L. M. Aguiar -- Whose transnationalism? Canada, "clash of civilzations" discourse, and Arab and Muslim Canadians / Sedef Arat-Koc -- Chinese transnationalism: class and capital flows / Lloyd Wong and Connie Ho -- Canadian Jewry and transnationalism: Israel, anti-semitism, and the Jewish diaspora / Stuart Schoenfeld, William Shaffir, and Morton Weinfeld -- Conclusion : directions for future research / Vic Satzewich and Lloyd Wong.