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Immigration and women : understanding the American experience / Susan C. Pearce, Elizabeth J. Clifford, and Reena Tandon.
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. 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.
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- ISBN: 0814767389 (cl : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780814767382 (cl : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780814767399 (pb : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0814767397 (pb : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780814768266 (ebook)
- ISBN: 0814768261 (ebook)
- Physical Description: x, 309 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York ; New York University Press, [2011]
- Copyright: ©2011
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-299) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Acknowledgments -- 1. We Can't Go Back: Immigrant Women, Intersections, and Agency -- Part I. Who They are -- 2. Your Story Drops on You: Who Are These Women? -- Part II. How They Come -- 3. I Had to Start Over: Entering through the Front Door -- 4. I Had to Leave My Country One Day: Entering through the Back Door -- Part III. What They Do -- 5. I Am Not Only a Domestic Worker; I Am a Woman: Immigrant Women and Domestic Service -- 6. Mighty Oaks: The Entrepreneurs -- 7. There Is Still Work to Do: Immigrant Women in Gender-Atypical Occupations -- 8. Always in Life, We Are Ripping: Culture Work -- Part IV. Where They are Going -- 9. Misbehaving Women: The Agency of Activism -- 10. Making History: Drawing Conclusions, Looking Forward -- Appendix A. Notes on Research Methods -- Appendix B. List of Interviewed Women -- Appendix C. Timeline: U.S. Immigration Policy and Women, 1875-2009 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors. |
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| Subject: | Women immigrants > United States. United States > Emigration and immigration. Immigrants > Government policy > United States. |
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