SA 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Afghan Cuisine, Osama Bin Laden, Canada Women'S National Soccer Team
8 Apr 2017
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Sa345 unit 9: creating politicized spaces - afghan immigrant women"s stories of migration and. Ethnographic study of afghan women in vancouver. Necessary to recognize participants as producers of context-specific knowledge. Women bring 3 themes that speak to policy makers: social provision as entitlement, valorization of the women"s multiple identities, transnational networks that contain but also go beyond the unit of the nation-state. Article supports locally-informed policy and service provision to effect progressive change. The politics of exclusion: family class and immigration. Women are disadvantages by canadian immigration policy, esp . Enter canada under the designation of family class . Women are at a disadvantage in multiple ways. Canada is obligated to accept a certain # of refugees each year. Further reduced thru restricting of welfare state: receive fewer services, their contributions to society are dismissed, state"s construction of women as dependents render them vulnerable to family exploitation. West as the savior of people fleeing chaos in their own countries.
