Not One of the Family: Foreign Domestic Workers in Canada [Paperback]

Abigail Bakan (Editor), Daiva Stasiulis (Editor)

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Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division; 1 edition (Sep 27 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0802075959
ISBN-13: 978-0802075956
Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 308 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #411,759 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #41 in Books > Professional & Technical > Law > Business > Labour & Employment
- #46 in Books > Law > Business > Labour & Employment

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Book 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 Author

Abigail B. Bakan is a professor in the Department of Political Studies and the Department of Women's Studies at Queen?s University.

Daiva K. Stasiulis is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University.