Social Science Emigration & Immigration
Not One of the Family
Foreign Domestic Workers in Canada
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Initial publish date
- Sep 1997
- Category
- Emigration & Immigration, Emigration & Immigration, Labor & Employment
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780802075956
- Publish Date
- Sep 1997
- List Price
- $39.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442677944
- Publish Date
- Aug 1997
- List Price
- $77.00
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780802006424
- Publish Date
- Sep 1997
- List Price
- $60.00
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Description
In Not One of the Family, experts on foreign domestic workers and workers-turned-activists document how the Canadian system has institutionalized unequal treatment of citizen and non-citizen workers. Since the 1940s, rights of citizenship for immigrant domestic workers in Canada have declined while the number of women recruited from Third World countries to work in Canadian homes has dramatically increased. The analysis in Not One of the Family is both theoretical to the practical, framing ideologies of privacy, maternalism, familialism, and rights, as well as examining government policy, labour organizing, and strategies to resist exploitation.
A key resource for all centres for women and immigrant workers, Not One of the Family is also essential reading for civil rights and immigration lawyers, labour groups, and government policy makers.
About the authors
Abigail B. Bakan is a professor and Chair of the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
Daiva K. Stasiulis is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University.
