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03830aam a2200445 a 4500 001 A7A6AFC4250A11E49299BDE9DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140816010026 008 101122s2011 nyuac b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2010048352 020 $a 0814768261 (ebook) 020 $a 9780814768266 (ebook) 020 $a 0814767389 (cl : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780814767382 (cl : alk. paper) 020 $a 0814767397 (pb : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780814767399 (pb : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)688559430 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BWX $d CDX $d UKMGB $d MIX $d AZU $d YBM $d NSB $d EEK $d BDX $d OCLCF $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a JV6602 $b .P43 2011 082 00 $a 305.48/969120973 $2 22 100 1 $a Pearce, Susan C. 245 10 $a Immigration and women : $b understanding the American experience / $c Susan C. Pearce, Elizabeth J. Clifford, and Reena Tandon. 260 $a New York ; $b New York University Press, $c c2011. 300 $a x, 309 p. : $b ill., portrait ; $c 24 cm. 505 0 $a We can't go back: immigrant women, intersections, and agency -- Who They Are. Your story drops on you: who are these women? -- How They Come. I had to start over: entering through the front door ; I had to leave my country one day: entering through the back door -- What They Do. I am not only a domestic worker, I am a woman: immigrant women and domestic service ; Mighty oaks: the entrepreneurs ; There is still work to do: immigrant women in gender-atypical occupations ; Always in life, we are ripping: culture work -- Where They are Going. Misbehaving women: the agency of activism ; Making history: drawing conclusions, looking forward -- List of Interviewed Women -- Timeline: U.S. Immigration Policy and Women, 1875-2009. 500 $a "Finding agency, negotiating resistance, and bridging cultures"--Cover. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-299) and index. 520 $a This book is a national portrait of immigrant women who live in the United States today, featuring the voices of these women as they describe their contributions to work, culture, and activism. Highlighting the gendered quality of the immigration process, it interrogates how human agency and societal structures interact within the intersecting social locations of gender and migration. The popular debate around contemporary U.S. immigration tends to conjure images of men waiting on the side of the road for construction jobs, working in kitchens or delis, driving taxis, and sending money to their wives and families in their home countries, while women are often left out of these pictures. Through an examination of U.S. Census data and interviews with women across nationalities, we hear the poignant, humorous, hopeful, and defiant words of these women as they describe the often confusing terrain where they are starting new lives, creating architecture firms, building urban high-rises, caring for children, cleaning offices, producing creative works, and organizing for social change. The authors recommend changes for public policy to address the constraints these women face, insisting that new policy must be attentive to the diverse profile of today's immigrating woman: she is both potentially vulnerable to exploitative conditions and forging new avenues of societal leadership. 650 0 $a Women immigrants $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Emigration and immigration. 650 0 $a Immigrants $x Government policy $z United States. 700 1 $a Clifford, Elizabeth J. 700 1 $a Tandon, Reena. 941 $a 4 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180127044224.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160825091153.0 952 $l UXAX826 $d 20150506020251.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20140816010659.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A7A6AFC4250A11E49299BDE9DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search