Acknowledgements
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
Index