Sustaining the Nation: The Making and Moving of Language and Nation

by Lindsay A. Bell, Monica Heller, Michelle Daveluy

This book is an ethnography of labor mobility and its challenges to the idea of the nation. Using the example of francophone Canada, it examines how social difference-race, ethnicity, language, gender-has been used to sort out who must (or can) be mobile and who must (or can) remain in place in the organization of global circulation of human and natural resources. It argues that "francophone Canada" can best be understood as an ethnoclass category...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019994721X
• ISBN13: 9780199947218
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"