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

Racialized Migrant Women in Canada : : Essays on Health, Violence and Equity / / ed. by Vijay Agnew.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Agnew, Vijay,
Ahmad, Farah,
Apale, Alisha,
Bierman, Arlene S.,
Boyd, Monica,
Bunting, Annie,
Cottrell, Barbara,
Hanley, Jill,
Lettner, Margot,
Mawani, Farah N.,
Mokhtari, Shadi,
Moncayo, Carmen Celina,
Mosher, Janet,
Peng, Ito,
Racine, Louise,
Spitzer, Denise L.,
Tastsoglou, Evangelia,
Vissandjée, Bilkis,
Wieringa, Saskia,
Yiu, Jessica,
HerausgeberIn:
Agnew, Vijay,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2009
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE. Immigrant Women and Violence
  • 1. The Complicity of the State in the Intimate Abuse of Immigrant Women
  • 2. Violence in Immigrant Families in Halifax
  • PART TWO. Immigrant Women and Health
  • 3. Gender, Migration, and Health
  • 4. Policy (In)Action: Policy-Making, Health, and Migrant Women
  • 5. Review of Health and Policy Research on Older Immigrants
  • 6. Exploring Social Capital among Women in the Context of Migration: Engendering the Public Policy Debate
  • PART THREE. Immigrant Women and Equity
  • 7. Immigrant Women and Earnings Inequality in Canada
  • 8. Migrant Muslim Women's Interests and the Case of 'Shari'a Tribunals' in Ontario
  • 9. Haitian-Canadians' Experiences of Racism in Quebec: A Postcolonial Feminist Perspective
  • 10. Challenging Gendered and Ethno-Racial Assumptions in Organizing for Housing Rights
  • Conclusion
  • Contributors

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