Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Contextualizing Transnationalism in Canada -- Part 1: Institutions, Policies, and Identities -- 1 State and Media Construction of Transnational Communities: A Case Study of Recent Migration from Hong Kong to Canada -- 2 Emerging Postnational Citizenships in International Law: Implications for Transnational Lives and Organizing -- 3 Transnational Nationalism: Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada -- 4 Demystifying Transnationalism: Canadian Immigration Policy and the Promise of Nation Building -- 5 On Tim Hortons and Transnationalism: Negotiating Canadianness and the Role of Activist/Researcher -- Part 2: States, Transnational Labour, and Diasporic Capital -- 6 Globalizing Work, Globalizing Citizenship: Community-Migrant Worker Alliances in Southwestern Ontario -- 7 Forcing Governments to Govern in Defence of Noncitizen Workers: A Story about the Canadian Labour Movement's Alliance with Agricultural Migrants -- 8 Transnationalism, Development, and Social Capital: Tamil Community Networks in Canada -- 9 Dancing Here, "Living" There: Transnational Lives and Working Conditions of Latina Migrant Exotic Dancers -- 10 Transnational Work and the Gendered Politics of Labour: A Study of Male and Female Mexican Migrant Farm Workers in Canada -- 11 Development and Diasporic Capital: Nonresident Indians and the State -- Part 3: Transnational Organizing and Social Change -- 12 The Institutional Landscapes of Salvadoran Refugee Migration: Transnational and Local Views from Los Angeles and Toronto -- 13 The South Asia Left Democratic Alliance: The Dilemmas of a Transnational Left -- 14 Transnationalism and Political Participation among Filipinos in Canada -- 15 Transnational Organizing in the Americas -- 16 The Challenges of Extraterritorial Participation: Advisory Councils for Peruvians Abroad.

Conclusion: Questions for Future Research and Action -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.