Immigration and Women : : Understanding the American Experience / / Susan C. Pearce, Reena Tandon, Elizabeth J. Clifford.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Pearce, Susan C.,; Clifford, Elizabeth J.,; Tandon, Reena,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The popular debate around contemporary U.S. immigration tends to conjure images of men waiting on the side of the road for construction jobs, working in kitchens or delis, driving taxis, and sending money to their wives and families in their home countries, while women are often left out of these pictures. Immigration and Women is a national portrait of immigrant women who live in the United States today, featuring the voices of these women as they describe their contributions to work, culture, and activism.Through an examination of U.S. Census data and interviews with women across nationalities, we hear the poignant, humorous, hopeful, and defiant words of these women as they describe the often confusing terrain where they are starting new lives, creating architecture firms, building urban high-rises, caring for children, cleaning offices, producing creative works, and organizing for social change. Highlighting the gendered quality of the immigration process, Immigration and Women interrogates how human agency and societal structures interact within the intersecting social locations of gender and migration. The authors recommend changes for public policy to address the constraints these women face, insisting that new policy must be attentive to the diverse profile of today’s immigrating woman: she is both potentially vulnerable to exploitative conditions and forging new avenues of societal leadership.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. “We Can’t Go Back” -- I. Who They Are -- 2. “Your Story Drops on You” -- II. How They Come -- 3. “I Had to Start Over” -- 4. “I Had to Leave My Country One Day” -- III. What They Do -- 5. “I Am Not Only a Domestic Worker; I Am a Woman” -- 6. “Mighty Oaks” -- 7. “There Is Still Work to Do” -- 8. “Always in Life, We Are Ripping” -- IV. Where They Are Going -- 9. “Misbehaving Women” -- 10. “Making History -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors