African women immigrants in the United States
Subtitle: crossing transnational borders
By: by John A. Arthur.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780230617780
Subjects: West Africans -- United States -- Social conditions; Women immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions; Africa, West -- Emigration and immigration
Description: African Women Immigrants in the United States depicts how immigrant women use international migration as a strategy to challenge existing patriarchal hegemonies operative both in the United States and Africa. It also weaves together the multidimensional strands of how African immigrant women shape and are shaped by the process of international migration.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.