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Immigration and women : understanding the American experience / Susan C. Pearce, Elizabeth J. Clifford, and Reena Tandon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pearce, Susan C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women immigrants--United States.
- Women immigrants.
- Immigrants--Government policy--United States.
- Immigrants.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The popular debate around contemporary U.S. immigration tends to conjure images of men waiting on the side of the road for construction jobs, working in kitchens or delis, driving taxis, and sending money to their wives and families in their home countries, while women are often left out of these pictures. Immigration and Women is a national portrait of immigrant women who live in the United States today, featuring the voices of these women as they describe their contributions to work, culture, and activism.Through an examination of U.S. Census data and interviews with women across nationalities, we hear the poignant, humorous, hopeful, and defiant words of these women as they describe the often confusing terrain where they are starting new lives, creating architecture firms, building urban high-rises, caring for children, cleaning offices, producing creative works, and organizing for social change. Highlighting the gendered quality of the immigration process, Immigration and Women interrogates how human agency and societal structures interact within the intersecting social locations of gender and migration. The authors recommend changes for public policy to address the constraints these women face, insisting that new policy must be attentive to the diverse profile of today’s immigrating woman: she is both potentially vulnerable to exploitative conditions and forging new avenues of societal leadership.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. “We Can’t Go Back”
- 2. “Your Story Drops on You”
- 3. “I Had to Start Over”
- 4. “I Had to Leave My Country One Day”
- 5. “I Am Not Only a Domestic Worker; I Am a Woman”
- 6. “Mighty Oaks”
- 7. “There Is Still Work to Do”
- 8. “Always in Life, We Are Ripping”
- 9. “Misbehaving Women”
- 10. “Making History
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Authors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-299) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-8147-6826-1
- OCLC:
- 744333871
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