Female immigrants to the United States : Caribbean, Latin American, and African experiences / edited by Delores M. Mortimer and Roy S. Bryce-Laporte.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Mortimer, Delores M., editor.

Bryce-Laporte, Roy S., editor.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

RIIES occasional papers ; no. 2.

RIIES occasional papers ; no. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women immigrants--United States.

Women immigrants.

United States--Emigration and immigration.

United States.

Emigration and immigration.

Genre:

Government publications.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

lxvii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 487 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Research Institute on Immigration and Ethnic Studies, Smithsonian Institution, 1981.

Contents:

Introductions

The new immigration: the female majority / Roy S. Bryce-Laporte

Race, ethnicity, and sex in the recent immigration: some preliminary comments / Delores M. Mortimer

pt. I. Papers on female immigrants

Black immigrant women in 'Brown girl, brownstones' / Paule Marshall

Caribbean migration: a perspective on women / Monica Gordon

"Goin' abroad": working class Jamaican women and migration / A. Lynn Bolles

Migration and sex roles: a comparison of Black and Indian Trinidadians in New York City / Judith Burgess and Meryl James-Gray

Profile of a Haitian migrant woman / Susan Huelsebusch Buchanan

Ethnic, racial attitudes among professional and managerial Black women: research note / Audrey Johnson

Nigerian women and child-bearing practices in Washington, D.C.: a summary of research findings and implications / Dorothy Payne Bryan

Caribbean women and the brain drain (quotation) / Donna Grey Black, female, and foreign-born: a statement / Barbara T. Christian

Ma, I remember (poem) / Eugenia A. Franklin-Springer

Latinas led the way / Lucy M. Cohen

Exporting capital and importing labor: the role of women / Saskia Sassen-Koob

The differential incorporation of Hispanic women migrants into the United States labor force / Helen I. Safa

Evaluating a work incentive program: report on employability services for Hispanic women / Palmira N. Rios

Mexican undocumented women workers in Los Angeles: a research note / Reynaldo Baca and Dexter Bryan

Black Cubans in the United States: basic demographic information / Lourdes Casal (with Yolanda Preito)

Obituary to a female immigrant and scholar Lourdes Casal (1938-1981) / Roy S. Bryce-Laporte

An afterword / Elsa M. Chaney

pt. II. Selected bibliography

Women and migration: a bibliography / Delores M. Mortimer

A. Bibliography

B. Bibliography addendum.

Notes:

Publisher's advertisements: [1] page at end.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-479) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Other Format:

Online version: Female immigrants to the United States.

OCLC:

7835795