Racialized Migrant Women in Canada : Essays on Health, Violence and Equity /

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Despite legislative guarantees of equality, immigrant women in Canada often experience many forms of prejudice in their everyday lives. Racialized Migrant Women in Canada delves into the public and private spheres of several distinct communities in order to expose the underlying inequalities within...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Agnew, Vijay, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2009
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Soziale Situation
Ethnische Beziehungen
Einwanderin
Women immigrants > Social conditions.
Race relations.
Minority women > Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Femmes issues des minorites > Canada > Conditions sociales.
Immigrantes > Canada > Conditions sociales.
Minority women > Canada > Social conditions.
Women immigrants > Canada > Social conditions.
Kanada.
Kanada
Canada.
Canada > Relations raciales.
Canada > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The complicity of the state in the intimate abuse of immigrant women / Janet E. Mosher
  • Violence in immigrant families in Halifax / Barbara Cottrell, Evangelia Tastsoglou, Carmen Celina Moncayo
  • Gender, migration, and health / Arlene S. Bierman, Farah Ahmad, Farah N. Mawani
  • Policy (in)action : policy-making, health, and migrant women / Denise L. Spitzer
  • Review of health and policy research on older immigrants / Ito Peng, Margot Lettner
  • Exploring social capital among women in the context of migration : engendering the public policy debate / Bilkis Vissandjee, Alisha Apale, Saskia Wieringa
  • Immigrant women and earnings inequality in Canada / Monica Boyd, Jessica Yiu
  • Migrant Muslim women's interests and the case of 'shari'a' tribunals in Ontario / Annie Bunting, Shadi Mokhtari
  • Haitian-Canadians' experiences of racism in Quebec : a postcolonial feminist perspective / Louise Racine
  • Challenging gendered and ethno-racial assumptions in organizing for housing rights / Jill Hanley.

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