Immigrant Women and Their Daughters: Intersections of Race, Class and Gender

2020 ◽  
pp. 58-68
Author(s):  
Françoise Gaspard
Keyword(s):  
Immigrant Women ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals The Labour Market Participation of Immigrant Women : A Study on Immigrant Women in the Flemingdon Park Area

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sew Ming Tian
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Family Responsibilities ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Park Area ◽  
And Gender

Through face-to-face interviews with seven immigrant women living in the Flemingdon Park area, this paper explores the barriers that immigrant women encounter in accessing the labour market, and the challenges they face in the labour market. The findings suggest that lack of work experience, language barriers, absence of networks, lack of education, and family responsibilities and gender roles are major barriers that immigrant women have to cope with while accessing the Canadian labour market. Working environment and underemployment appeared to be the challenges that immigrant women who are, or have been in the labour force, had to deal with in the work place.

scholarly journals Skilled immigrant women's career trajectories during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciara Nardon ◽  
Amrita Hari ◽  
Hui Zhang ◽  
Liam P.S. Hoselton ◽  
Aliya Kuzhabekova
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Career Trajectory ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Family Responsibilities ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Skilled Immigrant

PurposeDespite immigrant-receiving countries' need for skilled professionals to meet labour demands, research suggests that many skilled migrants undergo deskilling, downward career mobility, underemployment, unemployment and talent waste, finding themselves in low-skilled occupations that are not commensurate to their education and experience. Skilled immigrant women face additional gendered disadvantages, including a disproportionate domestic burden, interrupted careers and gender segmentation in occupations and organizations. This study explores how the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic impacted skilled newcomer women's labour market outcomes and work experiences.Design/methodology/approachThe authors draw on 50 in-depth questionnaires with skilled women to elaborate on their work experiences during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.FindingsThe pandemic pushed skilled immigrant women towards unemployment, lower-skilled or less stable employment. Most study participants had their career trajectory delayed, interrupted or reversed due to layoffs, decreased job opportunities and increased domestic burden. The pandemic's gendered nature and the reliance on work-from-home arrangements and online job search heightened immigrant women's challenges due to limited social support and increased family responsibilities.Originality/valueThis paper adds to the conversation of increased integration challenges under pandemic conditions by contextualizing the pre-pandemic literature on immigrant work integration to the pandemic environment. Also, this paper contributes a better understanding of the gender dynamics informing the COVID-19 socio-economic climate.

scholarly journals Memories of the struggles for the rights of immigrant women in Barcelona

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-233
Author(s):  
Catalina Álvarez Martínez-Conde ◽  
Clara Elena Romero Boteman ◽  
Karina Fulladosa Leal ◽  
Marisela Montenegro
Keyword(s):  
Immigrant Women ◽  
The Body ◽  
Narrative Construction ◽  
Immigrant Identity ◽  
Spaces Of Resistance ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The City ◽  
Academic Positions

This article is the result of an intentional articulation between the authors’ activist and academic positions as feminists and anti-racists in Barcelona. Using a narrative construction, we discuss memories of the struggles for the rights of immigrant women in the city. Firstly, the memories interact with other trajectories of struggle that go beyond ‘immigrant’ identity. Secondly, the memories give an account of activisms crossed by difference, in which difference operates as a linking category, from where dialogue and interpellation relationships are established. Thirdly, the memories help to construct the body and day-to-day life within spaces of resistance, serving as an instrument alongside gender in the struggles for rights. We close the article reflecting on memory and gender as intersectional processes that offer further perspectives on resistance and immigration.

Transnational families, religious participation and gender dynamics: Filipino, Sao Tomean and Indo-Mozambican immigrant women in Lisbon, Portugal

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana Salvaterra Trovão ◽  
Sónia Cristina Caetano Ramalho ◽  
Maria Inês Pereira Torcato David
Keyword(s):  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Religious Participation ◽  
Transnational Families ◽  
Gender Dynamics ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals Immigrant Women’s Economic Outcomes in Europe: The Importance of Religion and Traditional Gender Roles

2021 ◽  
pp. 019791832110088
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Kanas ◽  
Katrin Müller
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Gender Role Attitudes ◽  
Women's Labor ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
And Gender

This article contributes to previous research on immigrant integration by examining how religiosity and gender roles in European countries influence immigrant women’s labor market outcomes. Moreover, we extend theoretical work on the importance of the receiving country’s norms and values by hypothesizing and testing whether receiving countries’ influence varies with immigrant women’s religiosity and gender-role attitudes. Using the European Social Survey data and multilevel regression models, we find that religious immigrant women participate less in the labor market and work fewer hours than nonreligious immigrant women. Immigrant women’s traditional gender-role attitudes partly explain the negative relationship between individual religiosity and labor market outcomes. While the receiving country’s religiosity is negatively related to immigrant women’s labor market outcomes, this negative relationship is significantly weaker for religious and gender-traditional immigrant women than for nonreligious and gender-egalitarian women. These findings suggest that the economic benefits of residing in countries that support female employment are limited to immigrant women who are ready and positioned to embrace gender-egalitarian norms and values.

scholarly journals The Labour Market Participation of Immigrant Women : A Study on Immigrant Women in the Flemingdon Park Area

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sew Ming Tian
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Family Responsibilities ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Park Area ◽  
And Gender

Through face-to-face interviews with seven immigrant women living in the Flemingdon Park area, this paper explores the barriers that immigrant women encounter in accessing the labour market, and the challenges they face in the labour market. The findings suggest that lack of work experience, language barriers, absence of networks, lack of education, and family responsibilities and gender roles are major barriers that immigrant women have to cope with while accessing the Canadian labour market. Working environment and underemployment appeared to be the challenges that immigrant women who are, or have been in the labour force, had to deal with in the work place.

scholarly journals A Journey of Her Own : A critical analysis of learning experiences among immigrant women: assessing transformative learning and women’s resilience in community-based education programs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Fursova
Keyword(s):  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Education ◽  
Community Based Programs ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Former Ussr

This is a qualitative study that provides insight into the learning experiences of internationally-trained professional women from Israel, Iran, and the countries of the former USSR. The study focuses on analysing women’s transformative learning experiences and how those experiences may impact their resilience and well-being. The findings of this research inform the development of learner-oriented community-based programs for immigrant women and provide an opportunity for critical reflection on predominant assumptions about immigrant women. In addition, this study challenges the “deficient immigrant” approach and explores the concept of women’s empowerment in relation to cultural contexts and gender-power dynamics that influence immigrant women’s resettlement and learning. Keywords: immigrant women’s learning, transformative learning, immigrant women’s resettlement, empowerment, resilience, critical feminist theory

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