Racialized migrant women in Canada
Subtitle: essays on health, violence and equity
By: edited by Vijay Agnew
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780802099044; 9780802096050
Subjects: Women immigrants; Social conditions; Minority women; Race relations; Immigrantes; Conditions sociales; Femmes issues des minorités; Relations raciales
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The complicity of the state in the intimate abuse of immigrant women / Janet E. Mosher; title: Violence in immigrant families in Halifax / Barbara Cottrell, Evangelia Tastsoglou, Carmen Celina Moncayo; title: Gender, migration, and health / Arlene S. Bierman, Farah Ahmad, Farah N. Mawani; title: Policy (in)action : policy-making, health, and migrant women / Denise L. Spitzer; title: Review of health and policy research on older immigrants / Ito Peng, Margot Lettner; title: Exploring social capital among women in the context of migration : engendering the public policy debate / Bilkis Vissandjée, Alisha Apale, Saskia Wieringa; title: Immigrant women and earnings inequality in Canada / Monica Boyd, Jessica Yiu; title: Migrant Muslim women's interests and the case of 'shari'a' tribunals in Ontario / Annie Bunting, Shadi Mokhtari; title: Haitian-Canadians' experiences of racism in Quebec : a postcolonial feminist perspective / Louise Racine; title: Challenging gendered and ethno-racial assumptions in organizing for housing rights / Jill Hanley.