Outside and In-Between

Dr. Rose Ann Torres is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social Science at the University of New Brunswick Saint John. She has published books and many articles on Asian, African, Indigenous, and Women and Gender studies. Kailan Leung is an international educator, currently teaching and coordinating service learning initiatives at a K-12 school in Vancouver, BC. He holds a MEd degree from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, as well as a BA in English Literature from McGill University. His interests include cross-cultural identity formation, Third Culture Kids, and international education. Vania Soepriatna is an Indonesian international student in Canada. She is currently pursuing an Education Doctorate in Social Justice Education and Comparative, International, and Developmental Education at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Her research so far has focused on diasporic identities within the international student body in higher education institutions.

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Notes on Contributors

Introduction
   Rose Ann Torres, Kailan Leung and Vania Soepriatna

PART 1
Theorizing Asian Canada

1 Critical Reflexivity
  Re-imagining Asian Canada
   Rose Ann Torres and Dionisio Nyaga

2 Mixture and Movement
  Reflections on Identity, Power and Border Crossing through the Process of Currere
   Kailan Leung

3 Transnational Labour Migration of Filipino Nurses to Canada
  An Organized Historical, Institutional and Social Process
   Valerie G. Damasco

4 Theorizing Asian Canada
   Rose Ann Torres

PART 2
  Race, Gender, Multiculturalism, Work

5 South Asian Women Migrants Living in Canadabr/>   Prospects and Challenges in the Labor Market
   Sarah Alam

6 Unmapping Diasporic Pilipina Geographies
   Rose Ann Torres and Dionisio Nyaga

7 Reciprocity Policies and Institutional Practices as Exclusionary Exceptions
  Filipino Nurses as Recruited and Excluded Subjects
   Valerie G. Damasco

8 OutsourcEd
  International Practicums as Responses to Internationalization in Canadian Teacher Education
   Kailan Leung

9 Why I Don’t Talk about Being Filipino (I Think)
   Wallis Caldoza (in thought with Peyton Caldoza)

PART 3
  Citizenship, Multiculturalism, Culture, Identity

10 The Multicultural Façade
  A Colonial Performance of Diversity in Canada and Indonesia
   Vania Soepriatna

11 Impact and Implications of Rap and Hip-Hop Music as a Form of Resistance
   Juanna Nguyen

12 “L’Autore Ha Musicato Fin Qui, Poi è Morto”
   Allison Lam

13 South Asian Representations in the Media
  Repetition or Progress?
   Syed Fahad Ali

14 The Fallacy of Native-Speakerism in English Language Education
   Jasmine Pham

PART 4
Community Resistance and Activism>

15 Feminization of Pandemics
  Experiences of Filipino Women in the Health Care System
   Rose Ann Torres

16 Multiculturalism
  A Case for Continued Resistance for Space for Race
   Tika Ram Thapa

17 Brokering Belonging, Shattering Silence and Interrogating Resistances
   Grace Garlow

18 Filipina Activism from a Transnational Theoretical Framework
   Rose Ann Torres

19 Framework for Developing Resilience among Filipino-Canadian Youth during the Covid-19 Pandemic
   Valerie G. Damasco and Rose Ann Torres

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