The obstacles to assimilation and treatment of immigrant women are
major issues confronting the leading immigrant-receiving nations
today-the United States, Canada, and Australia. This volume
provides a range of perspectives on the concerns, the sources of
problems, how issues might be addressed, and the future of
immigrant women. It is based upon a two-part issue of the journal
Gender Issues, and contains a new introduction by the editor.
The first section focuses on labor force experiences of women who
have immigrated to the United States and Australia from Mexico and
Latin America, Eastern Europe, Korea, the Philippines, India and
other parts of Asia. Nancy Foner assesses the complex and
contradictory ways that migration changes women's status. Cynthia
Crawford focuses on Mexican and Salvadoran women who have recently
moved into janitorial work in Los Angeles. M.D.R. Evans and
Tatjiana Lucik analyze labor force participation of immigrants in
Australia and family strategies of women migrants from the former
Yugoslavia against the experiences of woman migrants from the
Mediterranean world and other parts of the Slavic world. Economist
Harriet Duleep reviews what is known as the family investment
model. Monica Boyd tackles the controversial issue of the leading
immigrant-receiving nations' unwillingness to declare gender an
explicit ground for persecution and thus for gaining -refugee
status.
The second section deals with social class and English language
acquisition, the obstacles women have had to overcome in gaining
refugee status in the United States and Canada, and a comparison of
movement patterns between different commentaries in Mexico and the
United States on the part of Mexican male and female immigrants.
Contributors include Suzanne M. Sinke, Katharine Donato, and Nina
Toren. Immigrant Women will be valuable to researchers in women's
studies, population demographics, as well as those teaching courses
in sociology, history, and immigration.
Rita James Simon is university professor in the School of Public
Affairs at the Washington College of Law at American University.
She is editor of Gender Issues and author of The American Jury, The
Insanity Defense: A Critical Assessment of Law and Policy in the
Post-Hinckley Era (with David Aaronson), Adoption, Race, and
Identity (with Howard Altstein), In the Golden Land: A Century of
Russian and Soviet Jewish Immigration, Social Science Data and
Supreme Court Decisions (with -Rosemary Erickson), and Abortion:
Statutes, Policies, and Public Attitudes the World Over.
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