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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