Roxana Ng
Biographic Data
| ID | 3841407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roxana Ng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roxana |
| FAMILY NAME | Ng |
| SIGNATURE | NG R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Asian Canadian Studies Reader
Roland Sintos Coloma and Gordon Pon’s Asian Canadian Studies Reader brings together essential writings by leading and emerging scholars in the field to explore the vibrancy of the diverse Asian diaspora in Canada
Class Borders
This paper discusses some of the results of a study aimed at exploring how highly skilled professional immigrant women from China and India, two of the top source countries of immigration to Canada since 1998, learned to reorient and reshape their skills, experiences, and aspirations in order to secure employment. Drawing on Bourdieu's notion of class as relational space, his differentiation of forms of capital and his concept of habitus, we expl…
Lifelong learning as ideological practice
Critiques of lifelong learning have focused on the neo‐liberal underpinning of state policy, where individuals are expected to take responsibility for meeting the needs of changing labour market conditions in the post‐Fordist economy. We treat lifelong learning as an 'ideological frame' that (re)shapes how people see and understand social reality, and organise their job seeking activities accordingly. Our argument is supported with data from two …
Garment Production in Canada
The garment industry is often held out as the first victim of globalization and the movement of capital and jobs from North to South. But Roxana Ng’s article “Garment Production in Canada: Social and Political Implications” reveals that, contrary to expectation, the Canadian garment industry may in fact be growing, and it is taking increasingly different forms within various Canadian cities. For Ng, the contradictory and unexpected developments w…
Multiculturalism as Ideology
Community Organization and the Canadian State
The Politics of Community Services
The Politics of Community Services
The politics of community services
The politics of community services
Lifelong learning as ideological practice
Critiques of lifelong learning have focused on the neo‐liberal underpinning of state policy, where individuals are expected to take responsibility for meeting the needs of changing labour market conditions in the post‐Fordist economy. We treat lifelong learning as an 'ideological frame' that (re)shapes how people see and understand social reality, and organise their job seeking activities accordingly. Our argument is supported with data from two …
Class Borders
This paper discusses some of the results of a study aimed at exploring how highly skilled professional immigrant women from China and India, two of the top source countries of immigration to Canada since 1998, learned to reorient and reshape their skills, experiences, and aspirations in order to secure employment. Drawing on Bourdieu's notion of class as relational space, his differentiation of forms of capital and his concept of habitus, we expl…
The Politics of Community Services
The Politics of Community Services
Community Organization and the Canadian State
Garment Production in Canada
The garment industry is often held out as the first victim of globalization and the movement of capital and jobs from North to South. But Roxana Ng’s article “Garment Production in Canada: Social and Political Implications” reveals that, contrary to expectation, the Canadian garment industry may in fact be growing, and it is taking increasingly different forms within various Canadian cities. For Ng, the contradictory and unexpected developments w…
The politics of community services
The Politics of Community Services
The Politics of Community Services
Community Organization and the Canadian State
Multiculturalism as Ideology
Garment Production in Canada
The garment industry is often held out as the first victim of globalization and the movement of capital and jobs from North to South. But Roxana Ng’s article “Garment Production in Canada: Social and Political Implications” reveals that, contrary to expectation, the Canadian garment industry may in fact be growing, and it is taking increasingly different forms within various Canadian cities. For Ng, the contradictory and unexpected developments w…
Lifelong learning as ideological practice
Critiques of lifelong learning have focused on the neo‐liberal underpinning of state policy, where individuals are expected to take responsibility for meeting the needs of changing labour market conditions in the post‐Fordist economy. We treat lifelong learning as an 'ideological frame' that (re)shapes how people see and understand social reality, and organise their job seeking activities accordingly. Our argument is supported with data from two …
Class Borders
This paper discusses some of the results of a study aimed at exploring how highly skilled professional immigrant women from China and India, two of the top source countries of immigration to Canada since 1998, learned to reorient and reshape their skills, experiences, and aspirations in order to secure employment. Drawing on Bourdieu's notion of class as relational space, his differentiation of forms of capital and his concept of habitus, we expl…
Asian Canadian Studies Reader
Roland Sintos Coloma and Gordon Pon’s Asian Canadian Studies Reader brings together essential writings by leading and emerging scholars in the field to explore the vibrancy of the diverse Asian diaspora in Canada
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Immigration (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (4 works) · Class (philosophy (3 works)