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Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Toronto Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

viii, 329 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Women immigrants--Canada--Social conditions.
Minority women--Canada--Social conditions.
Canada--Race relations.

Other Authors:

Agnew, Vijay, 1946-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

ISBN:

0802096050 (pbk.)
9780802096050 (pbk.)
0802099041 (bound)
9780802099044 (bound)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)311231189

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)