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Racialized migrant women in Canada : essays on health, violence and equity / edited by Vijay Agnew

Published
Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [2009]
Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Gibson Library Connections, 2010.
Copyright Date
©2009
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 329 pages : illustrations
Additional Creators
Agnew, Vijay, 1946-
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English.
Contents
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 Vissandjée, 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.
Summary
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 Canada's economic, social, legal, and political systems that frequently result in the denial of basic rights to migrant women.Using interdisciplinary approaches drawn from the areas of sociology, law, health studies, and political science, the essays in this volume cover diverse topics such as the social construction of Muslim women, access to health care, and violence against women. The contributors base their work not only in cities with large immigrant populations but also in areas less densely populated with immigrants, revealing regional disparities in regard to economic opportunity and social services.
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9781442689848 (electronic bk.)
1442689846 (electronic bk.)
9780802096050 (pbk.)
9780802099044 (bound)
0802099041 (bound ; alk. paper)
0802096050 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781442693401 (e-book)
1442693401
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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