Wenona Giles
Biographic Data
| ID | 94860 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wenona Giles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wenona |
| FAMILY NAME | Giles |
| SIGNATURE | GILES W |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 341 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Clean Jobs, Dirty Jobs: Ethnicity, Social Reproduction and Gendered Identity
Issues of ethnic identity, gender and politics intersect for two generations of Portuguese women in Toronto. In this article I use a ’social reproduction’ approach to analyze the meaning of exploitation for these women. The co-existence of both resistance to the dominant hegemonic culture and appropriation of nativistic notions of progress among the two generations of women are examined. The use of the words ’clean’ and ’dirty’ as they pertain to…
A Better Future: The Role of Higher Education for Displaced and Marginalised People
Policy makers, advocates and scholars have long concentrated on the importance of equal access to primary and secondary education as a foundation for a democratic and just society. Despite the growing importance of higher and specialist education in an increasingly technological and skill-focused global market, tertiary education has attracted much less attention. And yet, universities and colleges are epicentres of egregious disparities in acces…
Introduction: Gender and Conflict in a Global Context
New Directions for Feminist Research and Politics
Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones
In conflict zones from Iraq and Afghanistan to Guatemala and Somalia, the rules of war are changing dramatically. Distinctions between battlefield and home, soldier and civilian, state security and domestic security are breaking down. In this especially timely book, a powerful group of international authors doing feminist research brings the highly gendered and racialized dimensions of these changes into sharp relief. In essays on nationalism, th…
Refugees in Extended Exile: Living on the Edge
This book argues that the international refugee regime and its ‘temporary’ humanitarian interventions have failed. Most refugees across the global live in ‘protracted’ conditions that extend from years to decades, without legal status that allows them to work and establish a home. It is contended that they become largely invisible to people based in the global North, and cease to remain fully human subjects with access to their political lives. S…
Refugees in Extended Exile: Living on the Edge
Higher Education for Refugees
Introduction
Waiting for what? The feminization of asylum in protracted situations
Millions of refugees are stuck in camps and cities of the global South without permanent legal status. They wait in limbo, their status unresolved in what the United Nations (UN) calls ‘protracted refugee situations’ (PRS). The material conditions and depictions of such refugees as immobile and passive contributes to a feminization of asylum in such spaces. In contrast, refugees on the move to seek asylum in the global North are perceived as thre…
Not Born a Refugee Woman: Contesting Identities, Rethinking Practices
Reflections on the Women in Conflict Zones Network: Lessons From the Past and Forward-Looking Possibilities1
Sites of ViolenceGender and Conflict Zones
In conflict zones from Iraq and Afghanistan to Guatemala and Somalia, the rules of war are changing dramatically. Distinctions between battlefield and home, soldier and civilian, state security and domestic security are breaking down. In this especially timely book, a powerful group of international authors doing feminist research brings the highly gendered and racialized dimensions of these changes into sharp relief. In essays on nationalism, th…
Portuguese Women in Toronto: Gender, Immigration, and Nationalism
Portuguese Women in Toronto: Gender, Immigration, and Nationalism
Wenona Giles takes a new look at migration in this innovative study of Portuguese women by examining the gender, class, and race relations of the immigrant Portuguese population from the micro level of personal experience to the macro level of the long-lasting societal repercussions of immigrant status and welfare on their children. Comparing across two generations of Portuguese Canadian women, the book delves into issues such as cultural heterog…
Portuguese Women in Toronto: Gender, Immigration, and Nationalism
Comparing across two generations of Portuguese Canadian women, the book delves into issues such as cultural heterogeneity among Portuguese immigrants, the ambiguity of work and gender politics, and the concept of 'home' versus nationalism
Re/membering the Portuguese household in Toronto: Culture, contradictions and resistance
Maid in the Market: Women's Paid Domestic Labour
The Domestication of Women’s Work: A Comparison of Chinese and Portuguese Immigrant Women Homeworkers
Changes in the Canadian political economy, including trade liberalization, economic recession, the shift to postfordist forms of production, and monetarist economic policies, have intensified two processes which define the nature of women's work in the 1990s: informalization and domestication
Voice and Empowerment: The Gender Relations of Forced Migration
Gender Inequality and Resistance: The Case of Portuguese Women in London
While they value the wage derived from their work in the labour force, married Portuguese migrant women in London do not necessarily find that this alters gender relations in the household to their satisfaction. There is little research on how women continue to struggle in spite of the changes wrought by their involvement in wage labour. Because women's day-to-day experiences are multifaceted, expressions of resistance to gender inequalities in t…
Class, Gender and Race Struggles in a Portuguese Neighbourhood in London
Joâo de Pina-Cabral: Sons of Adam. Daughters of Eve. The Peasant World View of the Alto Minho, Clarendon Press, Oxford
Joâo de PINA-CABRAL : Sons of Adam. Daughters of Eve. The Peasant World View of the Alto Minho, Clarendon Press, Oxford.. Un article de la revue Anthropologie et Sociétés (Enjeux et contraintes : discours et pratiques des femmes) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones
In conflict zones from Iraq and Afghanistan to Guatemala and Somalia, the rules of war are changing dramatically. Distinctions between battlefield and home, soldier and civilian, state security and domestic security are breaking down. In this especially timely book, a powerful group of international authors doing feminist research brings the highly gendered and racialized dimensions of these changes into sharp relief. In essays on nationalism, th…
Waiting for what? The feminization of asylum in protracted situations
Millions of refugees are stuck in camps and cities of the global South without permanent legal status. They wait in limbo, their status unresolved in what the United Nations (UN) calls ‘protracted refugee situations’ (PRS). The material conditions and depictions of such refugees as immobile and passive contributes to a feminization of asylum in such spaces. In contrast, refugees on the move to seek asylum in the global North are perceived as thre…
Maid in the Market: Women's Paid Domestic Labour
The Domestication of Women’s Work: A Comparison of Chinese and Portuguese Immigrant Women Homeworkers
Changes in the Canadian political economy, including trade liberalization, economic recession, the shift to postfordist forms of production, and monetarist economic policies, have intensified two processes which define the nature of women's work in the 1990s: informalization and domestication
Higher Education for Refugees
Introduction
Clean Jobs, Dirty Jobs: Ethnicity, Social Reproduction and Gendered Identity
Issues of ethnic identity, gender and politics intersect for two generations of Portuguese women in Toronto. In this article I use a ’social reproduction’ approach to analyze the meaning of exploitation for these women. The co-existence of both resistance to the dominant hegemonic culture and appropriation of nativistic notions of progress among the two generations of women are examined. The use of the words ’clean’ and ’dirty’ as they pertain to…
Class, Gender and Race Struggles in a Portuguese Neighbourhood in London
Portuguese Women in Toronto: Gender, Immigration, and Nationalism
Re/membering the Portuguese household in Toronto: Culture, contradictions and resistance
Joâo de Pina-Cabral: Sons of Adam. Daughters of Eve. The Peasant World View of the Alto Minho, Clarendon Press, Oxford
Joâo de PINA-CABRAL : Sons of Adam. Daughters of Eve. The Peasant World View of the Alto Minho, Clarendon Press, Oxford.. Un article de la revue Anthropologie et Sociétés (Enjeux et contraintes : discours et pratiques des femmes) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Class, Gender and Race Struggles in a Portuguese Neighbourhood in London
Gender Inequality and Resistance: The Case of Portuguese Women in London
While they value the wage derived from their work in the labour force, married Portuguese migrant women in London do not necessarily find that this alters gender relations in the household to their satisfaction. There is little research on how women continue to struggle in spite of the changes wrought by their involvement in wage labour. Because women's day-to-day experiences are multifaceted, expressions of resistance to gender inequalities in t…
Voice and Empowerment: The Gender Relations of Forced Migration
The Domestication of Women’s Work: A Comparison of Chinese and Portuguese Immigrant Women Homeworkers
Changes in the Canadian political economy, including trade liberalization, economic recession, the shift to postfordist forms of production, and monetarist economic policies, have intensified two processes which define the nature of women's work in the 1990s: informalization and domestication
Re/membering the Portuguese household in Toronto: Culture, contradictions and resistance
Maid in the Market: Women's Paid Domestic Labour
Portuguese Women in Toronto: Gender, Immigration, and Nationalism
Comparing across two generations of Portuguese Canadian women, the book delves into issues such as cultural heterogeneity among Portuguese immigrants, the ambiguity of work and gender politics, and the concept of 'home' versus nationalism
Portuguese Women in Toronto: Gender, Immigration, and Nationalism
Portuguese Women in Toronto: Gender, Immigration, and Nationalism
Wenona Giles takes a new look at migration in this innovative study of Portuguese women by examining the gender, class, and race relations of the immigrant Portuguese population from the micro level of personal experience to the macro level of the long-lasting societal repercussions of immigrant status and welfare on their children. Comparing across two generations of Portuguese Canadian women, the book delves into issues such as cultural heterog…
Sites of ViolenceGender and Conflict Zones
In conflict zones from Iraq and Afghanistan to Guatemala and Somalia, the rules of war are changing dramatically. Distinctions between battlefield and home, soldier and civilian, state security and domestic security are breaking down. In this especially timely book, a powerful group of international authors doing feminist research brings the highly gendered and racialized dimensions of these changes into sharp relief. In essays on nationalism, th…
Not Born a Refugee Woman: Contesting Identities, Rethinking Practices
Reflections on the Women in Conflict Zones Network: Lessons From the Past and Forward-Looking Possibilities1
Waiting for what? The feminization of asylum in protracted situations
Millions of refugees are stuck in camps and cities of the global South without permanent legal status. They wait in limbo, their status unresolved in what the United Nations (UN) calls ‘protracted refugee situations’ (PRS). The material conditions and depictions of such refugees as immobile and passive contributes to a feminization of asylum in such spaces. In contrast, refugees on the move to seek asylum in the global North are perceived as thre…
Higher Education for Refugees
Introduction
Refugees in Extended Exile: Living on the Edge
This book argues that the international refugee regime and its ‘temporary’ humanitarian interventions have failed. Most refugees across the global live in ‘protracted’ conditions that extend from years to decades, without legal status that allows them to work and establish a home. It is contended that they become largely invisible to people based in the global North, and cease to remain fully human subjects with access to their political lives. S…
Refugees in Extended Exile: Living on the Edge
Introduction: Gender and Conflict in a Global Context
New Directions for Feminist Research and Politics
Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones
In conflict zones from Iraq and Afghanistan to Guatemala and Somalia, the rules of war are changing dramatically. Distinctions between battlefield and home, soldier and civilian, state security and domestic security are breaking down. In this especially timely book, a powerful group of international authors doing feminist research brings the highly gendered and racialized dimensions of these changes into sharp relief. In essays on nationalism, th…
A Better Future: The Role of Higher Education for Displaced and Marginalised People
Policy makers, advocates and scholars have long concentrated on the importance of equal access to primary and secondary education as a foundation for a democratic and just society. Despite the growing importance of higher and specialist education in an increasingly technological and skill-focused global market, tertiary education has attracted much less attention. And yet, universities and colleges are epicentres of egregious disparities in acces…
Clean Jobs, Dirty Jobs: Ethnicity, Social Reproduction and Gendered Identity
Issues of ethnic identity, gender and politics intersect for two generations of Portuguese women in Toronto. In this article I use a ’social reproduction’ approach to analyze the meaning of exploitation for these women. The co-existence of both resistance to the dominant hegemonic culture and appropriation of nativistic notions of progress among the two generations of women are examined. The use of the words ’clean’ and ’dirty’ as they pertain to…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Portuguese (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works)