Immigration and Women : Understanding the American Experience / Susan C. Pearce, Reena Tandon, Elizabeth J. Clifford.
Pearce, Susan C., author.; Clifford, Elizabeth J., author.; Tandon, Reena, author.
2011
JV6602 .P43 2011
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Title
Immigration and Women : Understanding the American Experience / Susan C. Pearce, Reena Tandon, Elizabeth J. Clifford.
Author
Pearce, Susan C., author.
ISBN
9780814768266
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814767382.001.0001
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814767382.001.0001 doi
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JV6602 .P43 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.48969120973
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.
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Clifford, Elizabeth J., author.
Tandon, Reena, author.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. "We Can't Go Back"
I. Who They Are
2. "Your Story Drops on You"
II. How They Come
3. "I Had to Start Over"
4. "I Had to Leave My Country One Day"
III. What They Do
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"
IV. Where They Are Going
9. "Misbehaving Women"
10. "Making History
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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