Transnational Identities and Practices in Canada

Vic Satzewich is a professor of sociology at McMaster University. Lloyd Wong is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Calgary.

• Introduction: The Meaning and Significance of Transnationalism: Conceptual, Theoretical, and Research Issues / Lloyd Wong and Vic SatzewichPart 1: Transnationalism in Historical and Political Perspective1. The Politics of Transnationalism: Comparative Perspectives / Sarah V. Wayland2. Transnationalism and the Age of Mass Migration, 1880s to 1920s / Christiane Harzig and Dirk Hoerder3. Unmaking a Transnational Community: Japanese Canadian Families in Wartime Canada / Pamela SugimanPart 2: Contemporary Patterns4. Characteristics of Immigrant Transnationalism in Vancouver / Daniel Hiebert and David Ley5. Transnational Urbanism: Toronto at a Crossroads / Valerie Preston, Audrey Kobayashi, and Myer Siemiatycki6. Contentious Politics and Transnationalism from Below: The Case of Ethnic and Racialized Minorities in Quebec / Micheline Labelle, François Rocher, and Ann-Marie Field7. The Caribbean Community in Canada: Transnational Connections and Transformations / Alan B. Simmons and Dwaine E. Plaza8. The Maple-Neem Nexus: Transnational Links of South Asian Canadians / Dhiru Patel9. The Invisible Transnationals? Americans in Canada / Kim Matthews and Vic Satzewich10. Latin American Transnationalism in Canada: Does It Exist, What Forms Does It Take, and Where Is It Going? / Luin Goldring11. The New "In-Between" Peoples: Southern-European Transnationalism / Luis L.M. Aguiar12. Whose Transnationalism? Canada, "Clash of Civilizations" Discourse, and Arab and Muslim Canadians / Sedef Arat-Koc13. Chinese Transnationalism: Class and Capital Flows / Lloyd Wong and Connie Ho14. Raising the Iron Curtain: Transnationalism and the Croatian Diaspora since the Collapse of 1989 / Daphne Winland15. Canadian Jewry and Transnationalism: Israel, Anti-Semitism, and the Jewish Diaspora / Stuart Schoenfeld, William Shaffir, and Morton WeinfeldConclusion / Vic Satzewich and Lloyd WongReferences; Contributors; Index

Transnational Identities and Practices in Canada establishes the need for discussing ethnicity not just in relation to the Canadian nation-state (as it has been treated so far), but also in relation to the connections that ethnic groups maintain with other locations. In fact, each contributor points towards new directions for research that would offer a better understanding of transnationalism in the Canadian context. - Dana Patrascu-Kingsley (Canadian Ethnic Studies, Vol. XXXVIII, no. 2, 2006)