Margaret Walton-Roberts
Biographic Data
| ID | 643879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Walton-Roberts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Walton-Roberts |
| SIGNATURE | WALTON-ROBERTS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6789-5350 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 315 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Employment Integration of Recent Immigrants in a Canadian Mid‐Sized City: An Emerging Model
With international migration on the rise and the critical need for labour in the global north, governments are increasingly focused on the employment integration of immigrants. Studies demonstrate that where immigrants choose to settle has an impact on how effectively they integrate into employment. In Canada, there has been a shift in immigrant settlement patterns away from large urban centres toward small and mid‐sized cities. Understanding how…
Sending State Perspectives on the Global Migration of Indian Nurses
India has become one of the key sources for the global nursing labour force. While there is significant research on the experiences of Indian‐trained nurses in destination countries and their motivations to migrate, relatively less work explores the role of the sending state in this policy field, and rarely are subregional differences considered. In this paper, we focus on the policies and processes that are designed to or otherwise affect nurse …
Transnational lives interrupted: The Canadian state and Indian international student experiences during the Covid‐19 pandemic
Canada has emerged as a major education destination for international students from across the world. International students are understood to significantly contribute towards the labour market and economic growth of Canada including the higher education sector that has come to financially rely on international students. India has emerged as the largest source of international students to Canada in recent years making them a significant category …
Neoliberalism in question: The Philippines' nurse education and labour export as liberal neo‐statist development agenda
Many scholars have used neoliberalism as an analytical framework to examine the Philippines' labour export policy. While neoliberalism entails a retreat of the state in favour of market reforms, evidence shows that state intervention of the market becomes larger and stronger over time. This paper utilises liberal neo‐statism as an alternative framework to understand the Philippines' nurse labour export by explaining that the state's role is large…
Diaspora alumni networks as transnational governance actors
Diasporas are increasingly seen as an economic resource and new agents in sending state development regimes. The nature of these state‐diaspora relationships are matters of increasing interest to scholars. In this paper we examine the case of India and the current government's engagement with diaspora groups, especially alumni networks of Indian Institutes of Technology and Management. Alumni networks provide conduits for diasporas to inform home…
A few “big players”: Systems approach to immigrant employment in a mid‐sized city
Canada's immigration policy is regarded globally as a best practice model for selecting highly skilled migrants. Yet, upon arrival many immigrants face challenges integrating into employment. Where immigrants settle is one factor that has been shown to impact on employment integration. In Canada, regionalization policies have resulted in more immigrants settling in small to mid‐sized cities. It is important to understand how these local systems a…
The Future of Health Care Work and the Place of Migrant Workers within It: Internationally Educated Nurses in Ontario Canada during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of immigrant health workers in OECD nations, and intensified debates about the current and future supply and distribution of such workers, particularly nurses. This review paper considers internationally educated nurses in the case of Ontario, Canada, and the policy responses developed during the pandemic to address the increased utilization of immigrant health workers. To further consider the evol…
We are all women here in Canada: Intimate bargains in Wash spaces
Doctoral Thesis Review – Anmeldelse av doktoravhandling
Immigrant Employment Integration in Canada: A Narrative Review
Placing Care Work in the Future of Work Discourse
In this paper, we argue that the importance of care work and migration is undervalued and undertheorized in current understandings of the future of work. Discussions of the future of work are predominantly technocentric. Focus tends toward speculative predictions and the implications of supposedly inevitable technological advances that will lead to evolving adaptation skills and job loss. This prevailing discourse prioritises economic development…
Moving nurses to cities: On how migration industries feed into glocal urban assemblages in the care sector
Migration industries include a diverse array of migration-related services provided by the state, commercial agents, humanitarian organisations and migrant social networks. The work performed by this array of providers, both non-state and state actors, includes facilitating, filtering/channelling and constraining migration. As a powerful example of how migration industries work in general, we examine their dynamics in the care sector as part of g…
Bus stops, triple wins and two steps: Nurse migration in and out of Asia
The migration pathways in which nurses engage are increasingly heterogeneous. In this article, I contrast three types of nurse migration pathway from three country pairs - Vietnam to Germany 'triple win' bi-lateral migration (direct migration); India to Canada two-step study-work (multistage) pathway; and 'bus stop' multinational migration from the Philippines to Singapore and onwards to other sites. Each pathway is not exclusive to the country p…
Intermediaries and transnational regimes of skill: Nursing Skills and Competencies in the Context of International Migration
Market-based migrant intermediaries play an important role in skilled migration. Skilled workers, especially in regulated professions such as nursing, face increasingly complex testing and credential assessment systems. ‘Regimes of skill’ control and filter membership to these professions by reproducing already existing power imbalances in the global regulation of skilled labour. This paper examines these processes in the case of Indian trained n…
Housing Vancouver, 1972–2017: A personal urban geography and a professional response
The forum includes a research paper, preceded by a brief introduction and followed by five short responses from Pablo Mendez, Loretta Lees, Margaret Walton‐Roberts, Ilse Helbrecht, and Alison Mountz. Mountz's introduction sets the context for the paper and makes some framing remarks on David Ley's career. The main paper examines the housing question in Vancouver, in the period from 1972 to 2017. Re‐examining a number of Ley's research projects ov…
Global Care Chains
The global care chain approach conceptualizes how care and domestic services are provided through chains of feminized and racialized migrant labor. The value of care labor is determined within global capital and patriarchal systems that devalue carework generally, as well as determine the value of workers more specifically through spatial and ethnic hierarchies. Developments in the global care chain approach have extended its application beyond d…
Occupational (im)mobility in the global care economy: The case of foreign-trained nurses in the Canadian context
The twenty-first century has witnessed a number of significant demographic and political shifts that have resulted in a care crisis. Addressing the deficit of care provision has led many nations to actively recruit migrant care labour, often under temporary forms of migration. The emergence of this phenomenon has resulted in a rich field of analysis using the lens of care, including the idea of the Global Care Chain. Revisions to this conceptuali…
Will you be my mentor?’ Feminist mentoring at mid-career for institutional change
This collaborative paper written by mid-career and senior faculty employed in public and private institutions explores the challenges of feminist mentoring at mid-career. We engage this problematic using dialogical writing as a means to highlight our experiences and needs for mentoring, while simultaneously co-mentoring one another to protect each other from cynicism and despair. Placing these experiences and dialogues in conversation with the ex…
Syrian refugee resettlement and the role of local immigration partnerships in Ontario, Canada
We examine Canada ' s recent Syrian Refugee Resettlement Initiative (SRRI ) paying close attention to the resettlement role played by mid‐sized urban communities. We elaborate on a key policy dimension at work at this scale of action: local immigration partnerships (LIPs). We start with a very brief review of Canada's history of mass refugee resettlement. Second, we assess the policy of LIPs, particularly how they have been presented as a form of…
Introduction to the special section on Syrian refugee resettlement and the role of Local Immigration Partnerships in Ontario, Canada
The role of local immigration partnerships in Syrian refugee resettlement in Waterloo Region, Ontario
As of January 29, 2017 Canada had received 40,081 Syrian refugees. The scale and scope of this resettlement is historic, with the only comparable event being the arrival of 60,000 Indo‐Chinese refugees in the late 1970s. Since that time, much has changed in local resettlement policy. This research focuses on one component of these changes—the role of Local Immigration Partnerships (LIPs) in Syrian refugee resettlement—through a case study of an o…
Asymmetrical therapeutic mobilities: Masculine advantage in nurse migration from India
This paper examines masculinity, migration and the changing occupational status of nursing through the lens of therapeutic mobilities; health related mobilities of people (nurses) and products (credentials). Indian men have become increasingly interested in nursing as a career, and this interest is strongly associated with the profession’s international motility—its mobility potential. The research reported in this paper traces the migration traj…
Therapeutic mobilities
This Special Issue expands mobilities research through the idea of therapeutic mobilities, which consist of multiple movements of health-related things and beings, including, though not limited to, nurses, doctors, patients, narratives, information, gifts and pharmaceuticals. The therapeutic emerges from the encounters of mobile human and non-human, animate and inanimate subjects with places and environments and the individual components they are…
International nurse migration from India and the Philippines: The Challenge of Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals in Training, Orderly Migration and Healthcare Worker Retention
This paper examines nurse migration from India and the Philippines through the lens of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) 4.3 (access to training), 10.7 (orderly and responsible migration) and 3.c (retention of health workers). The international migration of health workers has increasingly featured on the agenda of global health agencies. Ameliorating the negative impact of international nurse emigration from low-income nations has been add…
Happy anniversary gender, place and culture
It is with pleasure that we open this issue of Gender, Place and Culture with a short commentary as it enters its 25th year of publication! For a quarter of a century, feminist geographers have bee
Mobile Modernities: A South Asian family negotiates immigration, gender and class in Canada
For the modern Indian immigrant family ‘modernity’ is not necessarily found in the west. Using qualitative data drawn from in-depth interviews with one immigrant Sikh family, conducted in both Vancouver and the Punjab, we draw attention to the mobile and contradictory modernities family members have faced in their migration, settlement and subsequent transnational activities. We explore how class, gender and sexuality have framed the experiences …
Transnational geographies: Indian immigration to Canada
Immigration from the Asia and Pacific area now accounts for over 50 percent of all Canadian immigration. Therefore, any consideration of Canada's linkages with Asia must address this issue. While much work has debated the impact of immigration in Canada's urban centres, less has been directed to understanding the transnational nature of such population movements, or their specific transnational geographies. In this paper, I consider the geography…
What about the workers? The missing geographies of health care
Geographies of health have neglected relevant consideration of health human resources. Five developments in the sub-discipline are examined to demonstrate how health labour has been neglected. Three research themes, circulation, regulation and distribution, are then presented to indicate the value of a greater focus on health workers for the geography of health, and we suggest that deeper analytical engagement with labour and feminist geographies…
Contextualizing the global nursing care chain: International migration and the status of nursing in Kerala, India
In this article I explore the issue of nursing status in Kerala, India and how over time a colonial discourse of caste-based pollution has given way to a discourse of sexual pollution under expanding migratory opportunities. Based on survey and qualitative research findings, I caution that the improving occupational status of nursing in India is not directly mapped onto social status, and this is particularly evident in the matrimonial market. In…
International migration of health professionals and the marketization and privatization of health education in India: From push-pull to global political economy
Therapeutic mobilities
This Special Issue expands mobilities research through the idea of therapeutic mobilities, which consist of multiple movements of health-related things and beings, including, though not limited to, nurses, doctors, patients, narratives, information, gifts and pharmaceuticals. The therapeutic emerges from the encounters of mobile human and non-human, animate and inanimate subjects with places and environments and the individual components they are…
Three Readings of the Turban: Sikh Identity in Greater Vancouver
The ways that ethnic identities are constructed socially and spatially in the city are central to understanding contemporary landscapes. However, though we are able to theoretically reveal the constructed nature of identities, everyday identities are still politically, socially, and spatially essentialized. If researchers are to make any contribution to a consideration of ethnicity in the urban landscape, they must acknowledge and challenge this …
Interrogating borders: A transnational approach to refugee research in Vancouver
Immigration is predicated on the centrality of the nation‐state. The authors argue that analyzing settlement patterns and successful integration within a strictly national context is insufficient to understand the political, social, and economic relations which shape the lives of refugee immigrants in Canada. To support this claim, a less state‐centric theoretical framework of transnational migration is outlined. The paper examines methods emergi…
Occupational (im)mobility in the global care economy: The case of foreign-trained nurses in the Canadian context
The twenty-first century has witnessed a number of significant demographic and political shifts that have resulted in a care crisis. Addressing the deficit of care provision has led many nations to actively recruit migrant care labour, often under temporary forms of migration. The emergence of this phenomenon has resulted in a rich field of analysis using the lens of care, including the idea of the Global Care Chain. Revisions to this conceptuali…
Intermediaries and transnational regimes of skill: Nursing Skills and Competencies in the Context of International Migration
Market-based migrant intermediaries play an important role in skilled migration. Skilled workers, especially in regulated professions such as nursing, face increasingly complex testing and credential assessment systems. ‘Regimes of skill’ control and filter membership to these professions by reproducing already existing power imbalances in the global regulation of skilled labour. This paper examines these processes in the case of Indian trained n…
Femininity, mobility and family fears: Indian international student migration and transnational parental control
In this paper, I explore the migration of Indian-trained nurses enrolled in a post-graduate critical/geriatric care programme at a Canadian public college. Calling upon recent literature on gender, modernity and mobility in India, I examine the extent to which skilled transnational migration is shaped by gender relations established in India. While feminized international migration suggests increased autonomy of female migrants, this research hig…
Transnational migration theory in population geography: Gendered practices in networks linking Canada and India
Geographers have recently suggested that transnational migration theory can contribute to the development of a critical population geography. What might such a critical population geography look like? In this paper I explore this in three ways. Firstly I offer some comments on why geographers have been slow to adopt a transnational focus on migration, and secondly I examine how gender has been underplayed in transnational literature. Thirdly I dr…
Introduction: Reconceptualizing the State From the Margins of Political Geography
Syrian refugee resettlement and the role of local immigration partnerships in Ontario, Canada
We examine Canada ' s recent Syrian Refugee Resettlement Initiative (SRRI ) paying close attention to the resettlement role played by mid‐sized urban communities. We elaborate on a key policy dimension at work at this scale of action: local immigration partnerships (LIPs). We start with a very brief review of Canada's history of mass refugee resettlement. Second, we assess the policy of LIPs, particularly how they have been presented as a form of…
Care and Global Migration in the Nursing Profession: A north Indian perspective
Globalisation, supply–demand dynamics, uneven development, enhanced connectivity including the better flow of information, communication and the reduced cost of travel have encouraged the global integration of nursing labour markets. Developed regions of the world have attracted internationally educated nurses (IENs) because of growing healthcare needs. India, along with the Philippines, has become a key supplier of nurses in the global economy. …
Globalization, national autonomy and non‐resident Indians
The Indian government's recent High Level Committee report on the Indian Diaspora estimates that almost 20 million people of Indian origin live overseas. From this significant, although diverse, collective, India receives substantial resources. The relationship between the Indian nation and these 'flexible citizens' produces complex economic, social and political expressions at multiple scales. This paper explores the socio‐economic manifestation…
Asymmetrical therapeutic mobilities: Masculine advantage in nurse migration from India
This paper examines masculinity, migration and the changing occupational status of nursing through the lens of therapeutic mobilities; health related mobilities of people (nurses) and products (credentials). Indian men have become increasingly interested in nursing as a career, and this interest is strongly associated with the profession’s international motility—its mobility potential. The research reported in this paper traces the migration traj…
International nurse migration from India and the Philippines: The Challenge of Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals in Training, Orderly Migration and Healthcare Worker Retention
This paper examines nurse migration from India and the Philippines through the lens of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) 4.3 (access to training), 10.7 (orderly and responsible migration) and 3.c (retention of health workers). The international migration of health workers has increasingly featured on the agenda of global health agencies. Ameliorating the negative impact of international nurse emigration from low-income nations has been add…
Moving nurses to cities: On how migration industries feed into glocal urban assemblages in the care sector
Migration industries include a diverse array of migration-related services provided by the state, commercial agents, humanitarian organisations and migrant social networks. The work performed by this array of providers, both non-state and state actors, includes facilitating, filtering/channelling and constraining migration. As a powerful example of how migration industries work in general, we examine their dynamics in the care sector as part of g…
Will you be my mentor?’ Feminist mentoring at mid-career for institutional change
This collaborative paper written by mid-career and senior faculty employed in public and private institutions explores the challenges of feminist mentoring at mid-career. We engage this problematic using dialogical writing as a means to highlight our experiences and needs for mentoring, while simultaneously co-mentoring one another to protect each other from cynicism and despair. Placing these experiences and dialogues in conversation with the ex…
W hy do we still need a census? Views from the age of “truthiness” and the “death of evidence”
This viewpoint reports on a multidisciplinary panel held at the 2012 CAG/Congress meeting that brought together a number of researchers with important expertise on census‐related issues. They were asked to tackle the question: “Why do we still need a census?” Their presentations generated dialogue based on both Canadian and international experiences with recent changes in census data collection approaches. The article presents some cautionary obs…
The role of local immigration partnerships in Syrian refugee resettlement in Waterloo Region, Ontario
As of January 29, 2017 Canada had received 40,081 Syrian refugees. The scale and scope of this resettlement is historic, with the only comparable event being the arrival of 60,000 Indo‐Chinese refugees in the late 1970s. Since that time, much has changed in local resettlement policy. This research focuses on one component of these changes—the role of Local Immigration Partnerships (LIPs) in Syrian refugee resettlement—through a case study of an o…
Labour market regulation as global social policy: The case of nursing labour markets in Oman
This article examines global social policy formation in the area of skilled migration, with a focus on the Gulf Arab region. Across the globe, migration governance presents challenges to multiple levels of authority; its complexity crosses many scales and involves a multitude of actors with diverse interests. Despite this jurisdictional complexity, migration remains one of the most staunchly defended realms of sovereign policy control. Building o…
Relocating the Sikh Subject: Sikh veterans and the Royal Canadian Legion
In 1993 a number of Sikh Canadian veterans were barred from entering a Legion Hall in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada because they refused to remove their turbans. Using a postcolonial lens to explore this meeting and the historical factors leading to it, this paper offers some important reflections on both the evolution of Canadian multiculturalism and the nature and meaning of Sikh identity in a seemingly postcolonial context. The paper sugges…
Weak ties, immigrant women and neoliberal states: Moving beyond the public/private binary
Three Readings of the Turban: Sikh Identity in Greater Vancouver
The ways that ethnic identities are constructed socially and spatially in the city are central to understanding contemporary landscapes. However, though we are able to theoretically reveal the constructed nature of identities, everyday identities are still politically, socially, and spatially essentialized. If researchers are to make any contribution to a consideration of ethnicity in the urban landscape, they must acknowledge and challenge this …
Interrogating borders: A transnational approach to refugee research in Vancouver
Immigration is predicated on the centrality of the nation‐state. The authors argue that analyzing settlement patterns and successful integration within a strictly national context is insufficient to understand the political, social, and economic relations which shape the lives of refugee immigrants in Canada. To support this claim, a less state‐centric theoretical framework of transnational migration is outlined. The paper examines methods emergi…
Transnational geographies: Indian immigration to Canada
Immigration from the Asia and Pacific area now accounts for over 50 percent of all Canadian immigration. Therefore, any consideration of Canada's linkages with Asia must address this issue. While much work has debated the impact of immigration in Canada's urban centres, less has been directed to understanding the transnational nature of such population movements, or their specific transnational geographies. In this paper, I consider the geography…
Transnational migration theory in population geography: Gendered practices in networks linking Canada and India
Geographers have recently suggested that transnational migration theory can contribute to the development of a critical population geography. What might such a critical population geography look like? In this paper I explore this in three ways. Firstly I offer some comments on why geographers have been slow to adopt a transnational focus on migration, and secondly I examine how gender has been underplayed in transnational literature. Thirdly I dr…
Globalization, national autonomy and non‐resident Indians
The Indian government's recent High Level Committee report on the Indian Diaspora estimates that almost 20 million people of Indian origin live overseas. From this significant, although diverse, collective, India receives substantial resources. The relationship between the Indian nation and these 'flexible citizens' produces complex economic, social and political expressions at multiple scales. This paper explores the socio‐economic manifestation…
Introduction: Reconceptualizing the State From the Margins of Political Geography
Rescaling citizenship: Gendering Canadian immigration policy
Mobile Modernities: A South Asian family negotiates immigration, gender and class in Canada
For the modern Indian immigrant family ‘modernity’ is not necessarily found in the west. Using qualitative data drawn from in-depth interviews with one immigrant Sikh family, conducted in both Vancouver and the Punjab, we draw attention to the mobile and contradictory modernities family members have faced in their migration, settlement and subsequent transnational activities. We explore how class, gender and sexuality have framed the experiences …
Gender, geography and policy: The conundrums of engagement
Deflecting immigration: Networks, markets and regulation in Los Angeles * Ivan Light
Journal Article Deflecting immigration: networks, markets and regulation in Los AngelesIvan Light Get access Deflecting immigration: networks, markets and regulation in Los Angeles Ivan LightNew York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006. 246 pp. Price: $35. Margaret Walton-Roberts Margaret Walton-Roberts Department of Geography andEnvironmental Studies, Wilfrid LaurierUniversity, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxfor…
Weak ties, immigrant women and neoliberal states: Moving beyond the public/private binary
Locating Home: India's Hyderabadis Abroad – By Karen Isaksen Leonard
Immigration, the University and the Welcoming Second Tier City
Relocating the Sikh Subject: Sikh veterans and the Royal Canadian Legion
In 1993 a number of Sikh Canadian veterans were barred from entering a Legion Hall in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada because they refused to remove their turbans. Using a postcolonial lens to explore this meeting and the historical factors leading to it, this paper offers some important reflections on both the evolution of Canadian multiculturalism and the nature and meaning of Sikh identity in a seemingly postcolonial context. The paper sugges…
Immigration, trade and 'ethnic surplus value: A critique of Indo-Canadian transnational networks
It is often argued that countries hosting large populations of skilled immigrants might benefit from their cultural and economic competencies in the development of international trade networks. Yet, in so doing, the state can be criticized for fetishizing the ethnic immigrant in market terms in order to extract 'ethnic surplus value'. In this article, I examine these debates empirically in the case of India-Canada immigration and trade using inte…
Contextualizing the global nursing care chain: International migration and the status of nursing in Kerala, India
In this article I explore the issue of nursing status in Kerala, India and how over time a colonial discourse of caste-based pollution has given way to a discourse of sexual pollution under expanding migratory opportunities. Based on survey and qualitative research findings, I caution that the improving occupational status of nursing in India is not directly mapped onto social status, and this is particularly evident in the matrimonial market. In…
Territoriality and Migration in the E.U. Neighbourhood: Spilling over the Wall
This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars around an important question: how has migration changed in Europe as the European Union has enlarged, and what are the consequences for countries (and for migrants themselves) inside and outside of these redrawn jurisdictional and territorial borders? By addressing this question the book contributes to three current debates with respect to EU migration management: 1) that recent d…
Territoriality and Migration in the E. U. Neighbourhood: Spilling over the Wall
The housing preferences and location choices of second-generation South Asians living in ethnic enclaves
Canada has experienced the development of suburban ethnic enclaves by established immigrant diaspora groups surrounding major metropolitan centres. However, less is known regarding the housing and location preferences of their maturing offspring population, known as the second-generation. This paper seeks to explain the housing preferences and location choices of second-generation South Asians residing in Brampton's ethnic enclaves, a suburban ci…
South Asian diasporas in Canada
In May 2011 over 60 scholars gathered in Canada for a conference on; â Assessing the complexities of South Asian Migrationâ . This special issue of South Asian Diaspora on South Asian diasporas in Canada emerges from this event, and contains papers by scholars from multiple disciplines drawing upon various research methods and theoretical frameworks. As a collection the papers demonstrate the mature and evolving nature of research on Canadaâ s va…
Territoriality and Migration in the E.U. Neighbourhood: Spilling over the Wall
W hy do we still need a census? Views from the age of “truthiness” and the “death of evidence”
This viewpoint reports on a multidisciplinary panel held at the 2012 CAG/Congress meeting that brought together a number of researchers with important expertise on census‐related issues. They were asked to tackle the question: “Why do we still need a census?” Their presentations generated dialogue based on both Canadian and international experiences with recent changes in census data collection approaches. The article presents some cautionary obs…
Introduction: Deconstructing the (Re)construction of South Asian Identities in Canada
Introduction: Deconstructing the (Re)construction of South Asian Identities in Canada Simon Chilvers (bio) and Margaret Walton-Roberts (bio) Published Spring 2014 In May 2011 the International Migration Research Centre at Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada) hosted a conference on South Asian migration. It was organized as an interdisciplinary gathering with support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Margaret Walton-Roberts …
The Human Right to Citizenship: A Slippery Concept
The Human Right to Citizenship provides an accessible overview of citizenship around the globe, focusing on empirical cases of denied or weakened legal rights. This wide-ranging volume provides a theoretical framework to understand the particular ambiguities, paradoxes, and evolutions of citizenship regimes in the twenty-first century
Femininity, mobility and family fears: Indian international student migration and transnational parental control
In this paper, I explore the migration of Indian-trained nurses enrolled in a post-graduate critical/geriatric care programme at a Canadian public college. Calling upon recent literature on gender, modernity and mobility in India, I examine the extent to which skilled transnational migration is shaped by gender relations established in India. While feminized international migration suggests increased autonomy of female migrants, this research hig…
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