“I Didn't Come to Play”: Pasifika Women in the Academy

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Author(s): Sereana Naepi (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 18
Source title: Critical Reflections and Politics on Advancing Women in the Academy
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Taima Moeke-Pickering (Laurentian University, Canada), Sheila Cote-Meek (Brock University, Canada)and Ann Pegoraro (Laurentian University, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3618-6.ch004

Keywords: Gender and Diversity / Information Science Reference / Political Science / Social Sciences & Humanities

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Pasifika women in the academy face many of the same challenges as other racialised women working in universities. At the intersection of race and gender, we experience the white and masculine imprints of higher education. These imprints lead to Pasifika women experiencing excess labour, infantilization, hyper-surveillance, stranger making, expectations of intelligibility, and desirable diversity. In spite of this daily onslaught Pasifika, women continue to work and engage in higher education and the question needs to be asked: Why? This chapter explores these experiences and more importantly the motivations of Pasifika women to continue to engage with higher education in spite of the systemic exclusion they face.

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