Racialized Migrant Women in Canada

Essays on Health, Violence, and Equity
Herausgeber: Agnew, Vijay

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Produktbeschreibung

Agnew delves into the public and private spheres of several distinct communities in order to expose the underlying inequalities within Canada's economic, social, legal, and political systems that frequently result in the denial of basic rights to migrant women.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780802096050
• ISBN-10: 0802096050
• Artikelnr.: 26816844

Autorenporträt

Edited by Vijay Agnew

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Vijay Agnew
Part I: Immigrant Women and Violence
Introduction
The Complicity of the Public State in the Intimate Abuse of Immigrant Women
Janet E. Mosher
Violence in Immigrant Familes in Halifax Barbara Cottrell, Carmen Celina
Moncayo, and Evangelia Tastoglou
Part II: Immigrant Women and Health
Introduction
Gender, Migration and Health Arlen Bierman, Farah Ahmad, and Farah Mawani
Policy (In)Action: Policy-Making, Health and Migrant Women Denise L.
Spitzer
Review of Health and Policy Research on Older Immigrants Ito Peng and
Margot Lettener
Reaching Out and Scaling Up: The Dynamics and Relevance of Migrant Women's
Social Capital Bilkis Vissandjé, Alisha Apale, and Saskia Wieringa
Part III: Immigrant Women and Equity
Introduction
Immigrant Women and Earnings Equality in Canada Monica Boyd and Jessica Yiu
Migrant Muslim Women's Intersts and the Case of "Shari'a" Tribunals in
Ontario Annie Bunting and Shado 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 in Montreal Jill Hanley
Conclusion
List of Contributors