Unsettling Settler Societies: Articulations of Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Class / Edition 1

by Daiva K Stasiulis, Nira Yuval-Davis

Overview

‘Settler societies' are those in which Europeans have settled and become politically dominant over indigenous people, and where a heterogenous society has developed in class, ethnic and racial terms. They offer a unique prism for understanding the complex relations of gender, race, ethnicity and class in contemporary societies.

Unsettling Settler Societies brings together a distinguished cast of contributors to explore these relations in both material and discursive terms. They look at the relation between indigenous and settler//immigrant populations, focusing in particular on women's conditions and politics. The book examines how the process of development of settler societies, and the positions of indigenous and

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803986947
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	08/11/1995
Series:	SAGE Series on Race and Ethnic Relations , #11
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Daiva Stasiulis and co-author Abigail Bakan were awarded the Canadian Women’s Studies Association annual book prize for Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System (London: Palgrave, 2003; University of Toronto, 2005). They were also invited to give the plenary address to the association on May 30, 2007.

Daiva Stasiulis was born in Toronto and educated at the University of California at San Diego (Hon.BA and MA) and University of Toronto (Ph D). She has published extensively on citizenship, race and migration, feminism and diversity. In connection with her research on foreign domestic workers, she has worked with domestic worker associations and served as the Chair of the United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Violence Against Migrant Workers. She is a recipient of the Wilson Head Research Award for her book (with A. Bakan), Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System (which also won Porter Book Prize Honourable Mention).

Professor Stasiulis’s most recent SSHRC-funded research project is on “Border Crossings and Multiple Citizenship”, a comparative theoretical and empirical investigation of the growing incidence and significance of multiple citizenship in several states. This research seeks to shed light on the phenomenon of plural citizenship by exploring how individuals and families, from the global South and North, strategize to improve their individual and collective conditions by acquiring multiple citizenships. It also examines the consequences of multiple formal status on the life-worlds, geo-spatial mobility, class positions, rights, affiliations and identities of plural nationals and for the reconfiguration of national and transnational forms of citizenship.

Daiva Stasiulis supervises Ph.D. and M.A. graduate students, chiefly in the areas of citizenship, race/ethnic studies, migration studies, feminist studies, sexuality, and the sociology of childhood. She regularly teaches graduate seminars on Citizenship and Globalization and The Politics of Social Movements and the State. At the undergraduate level, she has developed a course on the Sociology of Childhood.

Daiva Stasiulis is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Canadian Studies; she is the Chair of the North American Committee of Citizenship Studies; and is on the editorial board of The Canadian Journal of Sociology and an editorial consultant for Feminist Studies. She is a 1997 recipient of a Research Achievement Award from Carleton University, and the 2003 Indo-Canadian Shastri lecturer in Canadian Studies in India. She has been a consultant to the federal government on issues of racism, migration, ethnocultural political participation, multiculturalism, and gender and equity analysis of immigration policy.

A member of Carleton’s faculty since 1983, Daiva Stasiulis has also been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Canberra and at the University of California at Berkeley.

Nira Yuval-Davis is Director of the Research Centre on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) at The University of East London.

Table of Contents

Foreword - John H Stanfield II
Introduction - Daiva Stasiulis and Nira Yuval-Davis
Beyond Dichotomies - Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Class in Settler Societies
Post-Colonial Politics in Aotearoa/New Zealand - Wendy Larner and Paul Spoonley
Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Australia - Jan Jindy Pettman
The Fractious Politics of a Settler Society - Daiva Stasiulis and Radha Jhappan
Canada
Gendering, Racializing and Classifying - Dolores Janiewski
Settler Colonization in the United States, 1590-1990
Miscegenation as Nation-Building - Natividad Guti[ac]errez
Indian and Immigrant Women in Mexico
Five Centuries of Gendered Settler Society - Sarah A Radcliffe
Conquerors, Natives and Immigrants in Peru
Constructing Race, Class, Gender and Ethnicity - Elaine Unterhalter
State and Opposition Strategies in South Africa
Gender Divisions and the Formation of Ethnicities in Zimbabwe - Susie Jacobs
Between ‘Becoming M'tourni' and ‘Going Native' - Anissa H[ac]elie
Gender and Settler Society in Algeria
Palestine, Israel and the Zionist Settler Project - Nahla Abdo and Nira Yuval-Davis

Editorial Reviews

‘....Unsettling Settler Societies: Articulations of Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Class, meets the needs of both authors and readers who look for more flexible frameworks of analysis and consider that dualistic terms like ‘race' vs class, state vs individual or centre vs periphery are too simple.... An unusually wide range of issues... are connected and juggled with and skilfully kept together.... Unsettling Settler Societies is of high quality. Being rather broad in scope and time, the volume invites other scholars to build upon the efforts of the various contributors to integrate qualitative and quantitative methods. Without doubt the wealth of references will stimulate ideas.' Development and Change

'Due to lack of space, I cannot report the ten case studies, but the potential reader should know that they are all excellent and definitely worth reading.... the book is an important supplement to current debates on the intertwining of "race ", class, gender and ethnicity. It gives the reader a clue why the decolonization process is such a long-lasting, contradictory and painful development - in some cases even a "mission impossible ".... this book has opened the road for a new discussion and I am looking forward to its follow-up' - The European Journal of Women's Studies

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