The Lived Experience Of South Asian Immigrant Women In Atlantic Canada

Author : Helen Ralston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X004067865

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The Lived Experience of South Asian Immigrant Women in Atlantic Canada by Helen Ralston Pdf

This study has made use of historical records, census data, and in-depth interviews with 120 first-generation women to generate a detailed portrayal of the demographics of South Asian women immigrants and their lived experiences. The text begins with a discussion of the major theoretical issues in studying South Asian women in Canada and the impact of Canadian immigration policy on this group of women. It goes on to provide a profile of these women and their socio-demographic context of their everyday lives in three domains: work in the home; work outside the home; and participation in community organizations, notably religious and cultural organizations.

Author : Leo Driedger,Shiva Halli
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773574229

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Race and Racism by Leo Driedger,Shiva Halli Pdf

Race and Racism brings together critical contributions from the academic and government sectors that analyse the nature and extent of racism in Canada. The broad spectrum of social scientific approaches represented here - sociology, cultural anthropology, demography, and psychology - and an equal emphasis on quantitative and qualitative methods make this study a particularly rich source for scholars and policy makers alike. Discussion unfolds along four main themes: concepts and theories relating to race (including some treatment of measurement questions), economic and social factors pertaining to race, racism, and discrimination (as represented in opinion and popular perception, measured in various ways), and the dimensions of minority coping in major urban areas. Race and Racism fills in many wavering lines on our cultural landscape and provides an important perspective on social policy for the twenty-first century.

Author : Josephine Naidoo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016410487

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Research on South Asian Women in Canada by Josephine Naidoo Pdf

Author : Mahsa Bakhshaei,Marie Mc Andrew,Ratna Ghosh,Priti Singh
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780228006053

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The Invisible Community by Mahsa Bakhshaei,Marie Mc Andrew,Ratna Ghosh,Priti Singh Pdf

The South Asian population in Canada, encompassing diverse national, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, has in recent years become the largest visible minority in the country. As this community grows, it encounters challenges in settlement, integration, and development. Accounting for only 1 per cent of the population in Quebec, the South Asian community has received limited attention in comparison with other minority groups. The Invisible Community uses recent data from a variety of fields to explore who these immigrants are and what they and their families require to become members of an inclusive society. Experts from Canadian and international universities and governmental and community agencies describe how South Asian immigrants experience life in French-speaking Canada. They look at how members of the community integrate into the job market, how they manage socially and emotionally, how their religious values are affected, and how their children adapt to French-speaking and English-speaking schools. The Invisible Community shares lived experiences of different subgroups of the South Asian population in Quebec in order to better understand wider social, political, and educational contexts of immigration in Canada.

Author : Evangelia Tastsoglou,Peruvemba S. Jaya
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781551304021

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Immigrant Women in Atlantic Canada by Evangelia Tastsoglou,Peruvemba S. Jaya Pdf

At last, an in-depth exploration of immigrant women's experiences in the labour force, family, and broader community in Atlantic Canada. Highlighting feminist research on women and gender-based analyses, the collection focuses on the intersections of gender with race, ethnicity, and class.

Author : Ferzana Chaze
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527517974

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The Social Organization of South Asian Immigrant Women's Mothering Work by Ferzana Chaze Pdf

This book examines the social organization of recent immigrant South Asian women’s mothering work. It explicates the processes that contribute to those belonging to this social group making changes to their mothering work after immigrating to Canada despite having reservations about doing so. The book draws its findings from interviews with 20 South Asian immigrant mothers who were raising school aged children in Canada and had been in the country for less than five years. Government policies, websites and newspaper reports also form important data sources for this study. Using institutional ethnography, the book shows the disjuncture between the mothering work of the South Asian immigrant woman and institutionally backed neoliberal discourses in Canada around mothering, schooling and immigrant employment. It highlights the manner in which the settlement experiences for South Asian immigrant women can become stressful and complicated by the changes that these women are required to make in line with these institutional discourses. The study explicates how the work of immigrant mother in the settlement process changes over time as she participates in social relations that require her to raise her children as autonomous responsible citizens who can participate in a neoliberal economy characterised by precarious work. The research that informs this book has implications for the social work profession, which is connected in many ways to the settlement experiences of immigrant women.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004496248

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Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 4 by Anonim Pdf

The purpose of this book is to provide an outlet for original research articles examining the role and value of religious and spiritual constructs across the social sciences. The aim of the series is to include an international and interfaith voice to this research dialogue. An effort is made to be interdisciplinary and academically eclectic. The articles in each volume represent a wide array of perspectives and research projects. Most of the articles report the findings of quantitative or qualitative investigations, but some deal with methodology, theory, or applications of social science studies in the field of religion, and some are applied, demonstrating the relevance of the social sciences to religious organizations and their clergy. The value of the volume is that it gives to researchers in this area a broad perspective on the issues and methods of religious research across a spectrum of academic disciplines. The aim of the book is to stimulate a creative, integrative dialogue that will enhance interdisciplinary research.

Author : Eleanore O. Hofstetter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313016943

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Women in Global Migration, 1945-2000 by Eleanore O. Hofstetter Pdf

With large numbers of people migrating to other countries after World War II, a substantial amount of scholarship has focused on the status, problems, and successes of women immigrants since 1945. The first comprehensive compilation of the international literature on these women, this bibliography--with over 5,100 entries--reveals the breadth of scholarship on feminist immigration issues. Focusing particularly on sources from North America and Western Europe, where most immigrant women settled, the book includes feminist analyses, bibliographies, demographic studies, economic comparisons, educational research, health and medical reports, legal discussions, biographies and autobiographies, psychological case studies, religious reports, sociological investigations, and publications dealing with general aspects of female immigration. The book covers such legal issues as citizenship, international conventions on contract workers, the traffic in women, and services and government benefits to immigrants. Medical entries include such topics as female genital mutilation, comparative obstetric results, and equity of treatment. Education entries cover such subjects as adult education and the second-language programs necessary for assimilation. With entries in several languages, the bibliography includes books, journal articles, essays and chapters in books, dissertations, ERIC reports, national and international government documents, and statistical sources. With immigration a major political and social issue in most countries today, the book provides an important research tool.

Author : Marlene Epp,Franca Iacovetta
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442625945

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Sisters or Strangers? by Marlene Epp,Franca Iacovetta Pdf

Spanning more than two hundred years of history, from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, Sisters or Strangers? explores the complex lives of immigrant, ethnic, and racialized women in Canada. Among the themes examined in this new edition are the intersection of race, crime, and justice, the creation of white settler societies, letters and oral histories, domestic labour, the body, political activism, food studies, gender and ethnic identity, and trauma, violence, and memory. The second edition of this influential essay collection expands its chronological and conceptual scope with fifteen new essays that reflect the latest cutting-edge research in Canadian women’s history. Introductions to each thematic section include discussion questions and suggestions for further reading, making the book an even more valuable classroom resource than before.

Author : Guida Man,Rina Cohen
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771120883

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Engendering Transnational Voices by Guida Man,Rina Cohen Pdf

Engendering Transnational Voices examines the transnational practices and identities of immigrant women, youth, and children in an era of global migration and neoliberalism, addressing such topics as family relations, gender and work, schooling, remittances, cultural identities, caring for children and the elderly, inter- and multi-generational relationships, activism, and refugee determination. Expressions of power, resistance, agency, and accommodation in relation to the changing concepts of home, family, and citizenship are explored in both theoretical and empirical essays that critically analyze transnational experiences, discourses, cultural identities, and social spaces of women, youth, and children who come from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds; are either first- or second-generation transmigrants; are considered legal or undocumented; and who enter their adopted country as trafficked workers, domestic workers, skilled professionals, or students. The volume gives voice to individual experiences, and focuses on human agency as well as the social, economic, political, and cultural processes inherent in society that enable or disable immigrants to mobilize linkages across national boundaries.

Author : Naghmana Zahida Ali
Publisher : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Abused women
ISBN : 0612916561

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Meaning-making for South Asian Immigrant Women in Canada [microform] by Naghmana Zahida Ali Pdf

My doctoral dissertation is a study in exploring ways of making LINC (Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada) curriculum more responsive to the needs of South Asian immigrant women in Canada. As a former LINC teacher, I had found the LINC curriculum deficient because I felt that (a) it did not acknowledge the rich cultural background of the learners and (b) it did not address the emergent needs of the immigrants in the new country. I therefore hypothesized that one of the reasons that South Asian immigrant women dropped out of LINC classes despite the various incentives offered by the government was these women's inability to relate to the curriculum being offered. In my view, a curriculum based on their everyday needs and their cultural demands would prove beneficial for the women settling in Canada and coming to terms with their identity---an identity influenced by the discourses of patriarchy, racism, sexism and stereotypes. In keeping with the humanistic tradition, I locate the origin of knowledge within the learner himself/herself. Dewey believed that " ... education in order to accomplish its end both for the individual learner and for society must be based upon experience---which is always the actual life experience of some individual" (1938, p.113). Hence, my approach to understanding South Asian women's lives was to focus on their immigration experiences and I used narrative inquiry for the purpose. The stories of Razia, Saima and Rukhsana---my participants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India, respectively---epitomized the challenges immigrants face in Canada. They revealed details of their personal and professional life that require a new curriculum forum for helping them become acculturated in the Canadian society. Using Connelly and Clandinin's work (1988) on personal practical knowledge, I suggest the need to initiate self study as a way of enhancing the critical awareness in South Asian immigrant women to overcome the challenges in their lives and question their redundant cultural assumptions. I have proposed a postmodern, multidimensional narrative curriculum to address issues around their identity in Canada by designing a replicable, tentative course outline for a narrative approach to curriculum in LINC.

Author : Alexandra Dobrowolsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134779055

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Women, Migration and Citizenship by Alexandra Dobrowolsky Pdf

Given the recent and rapid changes to migration patterns and citizenship processes, this volume provides a timely, compelling, empirical and theoretical study of the gendered implications of such developments. More specifically, it draws out the multiple connections between migration and citizenship concerns and practices for women. The collection features original research that examines women's diverse im/migrant and refugee experiences and exposes how gender ideologies and practices organize migrant citizenship, in its various dimensions, at the local, national and transnational levels. The volume contributes to theoretical debates on gender, migration and citizenship and provides new insights into their interrelation. It includes rich case studies that range from the Philippines and Somalia to the Caribbean and from Australasia to Canada and Britain. Designed to have a multidisciplinary appeal, it is suitable for courses on migration, diversity, gender, race, ethnicity, law and public policy, comparative politics and international relations.

Author : Lorna R McLean,Kate O'Rourke,Sharon Anne Cook
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773569119

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Framing Our Past by Lorna R McLean,Kate O'Rourke,Sharon Anne Cook Pdf

With introductory essays by historians, Framing Our Past emphasizes the lived experiences of women: their participation in many areas of social life, such as social rituals with other women; organized sporting clubs; philanthropic, spiritual and aesthetic activities; study and reading groups. The authors then focus on women's roles as nurturers and keepers of the hearth B their experiences with family management, child care, and health concerns. They consider women's varied contributions within formal and informal educational systems as well as their instrumental political role in consumer activism, social work, peace movements, and royal commissions. Canadian women's shaping of health care and science through nursing, physiotherapy and research are discussed, as is women's work, from domestic labour to dressmaking to broadcasting to banking. Using diary accounts, oral history, letters, organizational records, paintings, quilts, dressmaking patterns, milliners' records, posters, Framing our Past offers a unique opportunity to share what is rarely if ever seen, offering insights into the preservation and interpretation of historical sources.

Author : Sheba George
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520938359

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When Women Come First by Sheba George Pdf

With a subtle yet penetrating understanding of the intricate interplay of gender, race, and class, Sheba George examines an unusual immigration pattern to analyze what happens when women who migrate before men become the breadwinners in the family. Focusing on a group of female nurses who moved from India to the United States before their husbands, she shows that this story of economic mobility and professional achievement conceals underlying conditions of upheaval not only in the families and immigrant community but also in the sending community in India. This richly textured and impeccably researched study deftly illustrates the complex reconfigurations of gender and class relations concealed behind a quintessential American success story. When Women Come First explains how men who lost social status in the immigration process attempted to reclaim ground by creating new roles for themselves in their church. Ironically, they were stigmatized by other upper class immigrants as men who needed to "play in the church" because the "nurses were the bosses" in their homes. At the same time, the nurses were stigmatized as lower class, sexually loose women with too much independence. George's absorbing story of how these women and men negotiate this complicated network provides a groundbreaking perspective on the shifting interactions of two nations and two cultures.

Author : Ligaya Lindio-McGovern
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136644634

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Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance by Ligaya Lindio-McGovern Pdf

Examines international labour export of Filipino migrant workers and forms of resistance to globalization.