Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism is a reformed version of liberalism, of which Henry Giroux, a prominent critical theorist, broadly describes as a system in...
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Defining Chain(s) of Care
Chain of care describes highly gendered, racialized and heteronormative expectations for caregivers and their behaviors towards their...
Border Imperialism
A term created by Harsha Walia to scrutinize the “regime of practices, institutions, discourses and systems” (Walia, 38) that borders...
Production of Knowledge
Production of Knowledge: The process by which our understanding of the world – that is, generally accepted facts and narratives about...
Time Space Compression
The time space compression is a term that refers to shrinkage in temporality through the advancement of technology making places seem...
Resistance
Resistance is action or argument in the face of something unacceptable, with the aim to reclaim power in the face of an oppressor. Sozan...
Canadian Border Services Agency
The Canada Border Services Agency is a government body which regulates border services that facilitate the coming and leaving of people...
Globalization
"Globalization, according to sociologists, is an ongoing process that involves interconnected changes in the economic, cultural, social,...
Feminized Labor
“Feminization of labor is a term that describes emerging gendered labor relations born out of the rise of global capitalism. It is...
Binaries
Binaries - a binary describes a construction of two entities which are seen as separate and opposed from one another. Transnational...
Xenophobia
Xenophobia is the fear, dislike, mistrust, and avoidance of individuals whose culture, race, or religions is different from one’s own...
Assimilation
Assimilation - Adaptation of one ethnic or social group – usually a minority – to another. Assimilation involves the subsuming of...
Heteropatriarchy
Heteropatriarchy - This refers to the socio-political system wherein cisgender males and heterosexuals exert authority over cisgender...
Pinkwashing
Pinkwashing - According to Mokatrin from FEM Magazine, the term pinkwashing “refers to the appropriation of the LGBTQIA+ movement to...
Immigration
Immigration - The term Immigration came into light when it was first coined in the refugee movement after World War Two. Migrants had...
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Against Women (SGBV)
Sexual and gender-based violence against women (SGBV) - refers to any act that is perpetrated against a person’s will and is based on...
Imagined Communities
"Imagined Communities" Oxford Reference - “The nation is an imagined political community that is inherently limited in scope and...
Allyship
Allyship - “The term “ally” is used to refer to people in historically dominant groups who align themselves politically with...
Hegemony
Hegemony: 1: preponderant influence or authority over others: DOMINATION 2: the social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence...
Solidarity
Solidtarity - “Solidarity in this context [transnationalization], necessitates recognizing our diversity and building on it or, if...
Arab Women Activists
Activist - The meaning of activists according to the Cambridge English Dictionary is a person who believes strongly in political or...
Transnational Mothering
Transnational Mothering - Transnational mothering occurs when a mother leaves her family in search of a job abroad to provide for a...
Orientalism
Orientalism - Edward Said is a Palestinian-American scholar who coined the term “Orientalism” to characterize how the West negatively...
Trafficking in Persons
Trafficking in Persons - Article 3a on the UN ‘Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and...
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