Immigration and women : understanding the American experience / Susan C. Pearce, Elizabeth J. Clifford, and Reena Tandon.
2011
305.48412 P359i 2011
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Title
Immigration and women : understanding the American experience / Susan C. Pearce, Elizabeth J. Clifford, and Reena Tandon.
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ISBN
9780814767382 (cl : alk. paper)
0814767389 (cl : alk. paper)
9780814767399 (pb : alk. paper)
0814767397 (pb : alk. paper)
9780814768266 (ebook)
0814768261 (ebook)
0814767389 (cl : alk. paper)
9780814767399 (pb : alk. paper)
0814767397 (pb : alk. paper)
9780814768266 (ebook)
0814768261 (ebook)
Imprint
New York ; London : New York University Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
x, 309 p. : ill., portrait ; 24 cm.
Call Number
305.48412 P359i 2011
System Control No.
(OCoLC)688559430
(OCoLC)688559430
(OCoLC)688559430
Summary
This book 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. Highlighting the gendered quality of the immigration process, it interrogates how human agency and societal structures interact within the intersecting social locations of gender and migration. 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. 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. 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-299) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
We Can't Go Back: Immigrant Women, Intersections, and Agency
Who They Are. Your Story Drops on You: Who Are These Women?
How They Come
I Had to Start Over: Entering through the Front Door
I Had to Leave My Country One Day: Entering through the Back Door
What They Do
I Am Not Only a Domestic Worker; I Am a Woman: Immigrant Women and Domestic Service
Mighty Oaks: The Entrepreneurs
There Is Still Work to Do: Immigrant Women in Gender-Atypical Occupations
Always in Life, We Are Ripping: Culture Work
Where They are Going
Misbehaving Women: The Agency of Activism
Making History: Drawing Conclusions, Looking Forward
List of Interviewed Women
Timeline: U.S. Immigration Policy and Women, 1875-2009.
Who They Are. Your Story Drops on You: Who Are These Women?
How They Come
I Had to Start Over: Entering through the Front Door
I Had to Leave My Country One Day: Entering through the Back Door
What They Do
I Am Not Only a Domestic Worker; I Am a Woman: Immigrant Women and Domestic Service
Mighty Oaks: The Entrepreneurs
There Is Still Work to Do: Immigrant Women in Gender-Atypical Occupations
Always in Life, We Are Ripping: Culture Work
Where They are Going
Misbehaving Women: The Agency of Activism
Making History: Drawing Conclusions, Looking Forward
List of Interviewed Women
Timeline: U.S. Immigration Policy and Women, 1875-2009.
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