Politics and Poetics of Migration: Narratives of Iranian Women from the Diaspora - Couverture souple

Dossa, Parin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1551302721 ISBN 13 : 9781551302720

Editeur : Canadian Scholars, 2004

Synopsis

This book uses gendered stories of displacement and re-settlement to interrogate our understanding of social suffering and justice. Parin Dossa, an anthropologist, argues that systemic inequity and exclusionary practices impact the health and well-being of marginalized people.

Using narrative accounts of Canadian Iranian women, this book links individual experiences of migration to social and political factors. Dossa challenges conventional thinking that interprets social suffering in terms of personal stake and individual accountability. She questions the ways in which racialized and gendered inequality in Canada are perceived as cultural differences instead of social oppression.

Yet this book is far from a laundry list of social determinants of migration and health. Dossa's illustrative stories are linked to a poetics of migration that shows the remaking of a world with a more informed sense of social justice. A pioneering study on migration and storytelling, this book is an important contribution to medical anthropology, migration and gender studies.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Parin Dossa is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. She is the co-producer of two videos, New Voices: Ethnic Elders in Canada and Out of the Shadows: Narratives of Women with Development Disabilities, and has written extensively on migration, gender, and health.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Canadian Scholars
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1551302721
• ISBN 13: 9781551302720
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 189
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• Personne responsable: non disponible