I felt like an alien who fell down to earth, not understanding the
rules of the game, making all the possible mistakes, saying all the
wrong things. Your whole life is in the hands of other people who
do not always mean well and there is nothing you can do about it.
They can decide to send you away and you have no control. The
moment I enter the house, I shelve my American self and become the
'little obedient wife' that my husband wants me to be. The most
difficult part is to find myself again. At the beginning I lost
myself. This jargon-free book documents and analyzes the experience
of immigration from the female perspective. It discusses the unique
challenges that women face, offers insights into the meanings of
their experiences, develops gender-sensitive knowledge about
immigration, and discusses implications for the effective
development and provision of services to immigrant women. With
fascinating case studies of immigration to the United States,
Australia, and Israel as well as helpful lists of relevant
organizations and Web site/Internet addresses, Immigrant Women Tell
Their Stories is for everyone who wants to learn or teach about
immigration, especially its female face. It was like somebody sawed
my heart in two. One part remained in Cuba and one part here.
Immigrant Women Tell Their Stories examines the nature of
immigration for women through the eyes of those who have
experienced it: how they perceive, interpret, and address the
nature of the experience, its multiple aspects, the issues that it
presents, and the strategies that immigrant women develop to cope
with those issues. The women in this extraordinary book came from
different spots around the globe, speak different languages and
dialects, and their English comes in different accents. They vary
in age as well as in cultural, ethnic, social, educational, and
professional status. They represent a rainbow of family types and
political opinions. In spite of their diversity, all these women
share immigration experience. This book provides an understanding
of the journeys they traveled and the experiences they lived to
bring you new insights into what it means to immigrate as a woman
and to frame effective strategies for working withand forimmigrant
women. My father is the head of the house. When he decided to move
to America [from India] my mother and us, the daughters, did not
have much say. My mother and I were not happy at all, but it did
not matter. Immigrant Women Tell Their Stories provides you with
historical and global perspectives on immigration and addresses:
legal, political, economic, social, and psychological dimensions of
immigration and its aftermath deconstructing immigration by age,
gender, and circumstances major issues of immigrant womenlanguage,
mothering, relationships and marriage, finding employment,
assimilation (how much and how soon), loneliness, and more
resilience in immigrant women immigration from a lesbian
perspective guidelines for the development and delivery of services
to immigrant women You may say that I am the bridge, the desert
generation that lost the chance to have it my way. But I will do my
best to raise my daughters to have more choices than I. In this
well-referenced book, immigrant women from Austria, Bosnia, Cuba,
various parts of the former Soviet Union, Guatemala, India, Israel,
Lebanon, Mexico, Pakistan, and the Philippines tell us their
stories, recount what their experiences entailed and what
challenges they posed, and teach us ways to help them cope
successfully. This was the best decision we could have made and the
best thing we had ever done.
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