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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