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Equity measures and attempts at inclusivity in the university, such as harassment policies and prejudice reduction workshops, tend to treat sexism, racism, and other forms of marginalization and exclusion as attitudinal and individualistic properties. Through dis- cussion of a critical incident in which I was involved, I argue that sexism and racism are systemic; they are power relations that have become normalized courses of action within the university. To make the university more inclusive in fact, and not merely in policy, therefore, I propose an anti-sexist/racist approach explicitly taking into account the inequalities members of the university embody in their gender, racial, and other historical- ly and ideologically constructed differences. Les mesures d'équité et les autres initiatives d'inclusion telles les politiques contre le harcèlement sexuel et les ateliers visant à réduire les préjugés ont tendance à considérer le sexisme, le racisme et les autres formes de marginalisation et d'exclusion comme des questions d'attitudes personnelles. À travers l'analyse d'un incident décisif dans laquelle elle a été impliquée, l'auteure soutient que le sexisme et le racisme sont systémiques; il s'agit de relations de pouvoir qui sont devenues la norme au sein de l'université. Pour favoriser l'inclusion à l'université et ce, dans la pratique plutôt que dans les seules politi- ques, l'auteure propose une approche anti-sexiste et anti-raciste qui tient compte explicite- ment des inégalités entre les membres de la communauté universitaire dans leurs différen- ces de sexe, de race ou de toute autre différence qui est le fruit de l'histoire ou d'une idéologie.

This paper discusses some of the results of a study aimed at exploring how highly skilled professional immigrant women from China and India, two of the top source countries of immigration to Canada since 1998, learned to reorient and reshape their skills, experiences, and aspirations in order to secure employment. Drawing on Bourdieu's notion of class as relational space, his differentiation of forms of capital and his concept of habitus, we explore ways in which these women mobilize the resources they have at their disposal transnationally in order to realign their class position in Canada. Issues of gender and race are also incorporated into the discussion of class.

Chronicles the community-formation processes of 4 major immigrant groups in Toronto, Ontario, across the 20th century -- Jewish, Caribbean, Italian, & Chinese -- highlighting their sociohistorical dynamics. Three changing policy frameworks that have shaped the integration of immigrant newcomers into Toronto society are identified, & the current ethnic diversity of the city is analyzed. Census & statistical data reveal significant inequalities both within & between immigrant groups & native Canadians in terms of income, education, employment, access to health & social services, & political representation. In reaction to these inequalities, various forms of resistance & solidarity have emerged among immigrants; several examples of immigrant community mobilization & organizing are documented, along with the programmatic & policy responses such actions have evoked from the federal & provincial governments. Lessons that can be drawn from Toronto's experience for the development of other cosmopolitan cities are summarized. K. Hyatt Stewart

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Encountering Asian Canada -- 1. Asian Canadian Studies Now: Directions and Challenges -- 2. Nationals, Citizens, and Others -- 3. The Racial Subtext in Canada's Immigration Discourse -- 4. The Muslims Are Coming: The "Sharia Debate" in Canada -- 5. Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn -- 6. Cartographies of Violence: Creating Carceral Spaces and Expelling Japanese Canadians from the Nation -- 7. Redress Express: Chinese Restaurants and the Head Tax Issue in Canadian Art -- 8. Between Homes: Displacement and Belonging for Second-Generation Filipino-Canadian Youths -- Part Three: Intersectional Encounters -- 9. The Paradox of Diversity: The Construction of a Multicultural Canada and "Women of Color" -- 10. "A Woman Out of Control": Deconstructing Sexism and Racism in the University -- 11. Orientalizing "War Talk": Representations of the Gendered Muslim Body Post 9-11 in The Montreal Gazette -- Part Four: Comparative Encounters -- 12. Decolonizasian: Reading Asian and First Nations Relations in Literature -- 13. Marginalized and Dissident Non-Citizens: Foreign Domestic Workers -- 14. Residential Segregation of Visible Minority Groups in Toronto -- Part Five: Transnational Encounters -- 15. Sweet and Sour: Historical Presence and Diasporic Agency -- 16. Altered States: Global Currents, the Spectral Nation, and the Production of "Asian Canadian" -- 17. Whose Transnationalism? Canada, "Clash of Civilizations" Discourse and Arab and Muslim Canadians -- Part Six: After Encounters -- 18. Global Migrants and the New Pacific Canada -- 19. Asian Canada: Undone -- 20. "Too Asian?": On Racism, Paradox, and Ethno-nationalism -- Contributors