Culture, class, and work among Arab-American women /

Read examines the labor force activity of Arab-American women, a group whose work experiences provide an exception to accepted theories. The employment rates of Arab immigrant women rank among the lowest of any immigrant group, while the rates of native-born Arab-American women resemble those of U.S...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Read, Jen'nan Ghazal, 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2004.
Colección:New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Temas:
Arab American women > Social conditions.
Arab American women > Employment.
Women immigrants > United States > Social conditions.
Women foreign workers > United States.
Labor supply > United States.
Sex role > United States.
Arab Americans > Ethnic identity.
Arab Americans > Cultural assimilation.
Américaines d'origine arabe > Conditions sociales.
Américaines d'origine arabe > Travail.
Immigrantes > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Immigrantes > Travail > États-Unis.
Marché du travail > États-Unis.
Rôle selon le sexe > États-Unis.
Américains d'origine arabe > Identité ethnique.
Américains d'origine arabe > Acculturation.
Travailleuses étrangères > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Arab Americans > Ethnic identity
Labor supply
Sex role
Women foreign workers
Women immigrants > Social conditions
Araberin
Klassenbewusstsein
Kulturbeziehungen
United States
USA
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction
  • Statement of the Problem
  • Origins of Diversity: Arab-American Immigration
  • Research Objectives
  • Organization of the Study
  • 2 Theoretical Significance of Women's Labor Force Participation
  • Structural and Cultural Explanations of Ethnic Diversity
  • The Evolution of Ethnic and Gender Studies: Recognizing Intraethnic Diversity
  • Summary
  • 3 The Case for Arab Americans
  • Determinants of Arab-American Women's Labor Force Activity
  • Hypotheses
  • Data and Methods
  • 4 Arab-American Women in Comparative Perspective
  • U.S. Census Data
  • Arab-American Survey Data
  • Immigrant Selectivity and Arab-American Women's Success
  • Cultural and Class Diversity
  • The Impact of Nativity: Variations in Cultural Assimilation
  • Challenging Myths of U.S. Muslim Women
  • Portrait of an Achieving Ethnic Population
  • 5 Determinants of Arab-American Women's Economic Achievements
  • Ties that Bind: Ethnic Homogamy, Religiosity, and Women's Employment
  • Cultural Influences on Labor Force Commitment
  • Gender Traditionalism's Cultural Underpinnings
  • Education, Occupation, and Women's Earnings
  • Summary
  • 6 Conclusion
  • Women's Achievements and the Universal Sisterhood
  • The Gendered Consequences of Culture
  • Summary and Future Research
  • Appendices
  • References.

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