"They think you're as stupid as your English is" †: Constructing foreign domestic workers in Toronto

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 195-215

  England, K ^a   Stiell, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ETHNIC GROUP; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; MIGRANTS--WOMEN; MIGRATION; NATIONALITY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAS; CANADA; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; MIGRANTS--WOMEN; MIGRATION; NATIONALITY; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AMERICAS; CANADA; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 0031071064     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a290195     Document Type: Article

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