ISBN:
9781799846659
,
1799846652
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 281 pages)
,
illustrations
Series Statement:
Advances in religious and cultural studies (ARCS) book series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Immigrant women's voices and integrating feminism into migration theory
DDC:
305.48/41
Keywords:
Sex discrimination against women
;
Women immigrants Abuse of
;
Women immigrants Employment
;
Women immigrants Social conditions 21st century
;
Sex discrimination against women
;
Women immigrants ; Abuse of
;
Women immigrants ; Social conditions
Abstract:
"This book offers a detailed description of the lives of immigrant women across the globe, featuring the voices of women as they describe their experiences living in the diaspora either with their families or alone."--
Abstract:
Section 1. Women's immigration: theories and methodologies. Chapter 1. Feminist approaches to global migration ; Chapter 2. Worthy: neoliberalism and narratives of (im)migration ; Chapter 3. A phenomenological study of female and feminist identities among Iranian Muslim immigrant women ; Chapter 4. Introducing a black African immigrant womanist approach to examine the experiences of African immigrant women in international migration -- Section 2. Women as migrant workers. Chapter 5. Gendered social roles and female labor migration: repercussions for the Ayyappa pilgrimage of South India ; Chapter 6. International indonesian migrant women workers: challenges at work and the consequences for family left behind ; Chapter 7. The unnoticed side of remittance transportation: women encounters with remittance transporters-omalayisha -- Section 3. Women as refugees, asylees, and permanent migrants. Chapter 8. Hispanic/Latino immigrant women's social stressors: silenced voices ; Chapter 9. Emerging challenges: the experiences of Turkish women immigrants in Saudi Arabia ; Chapter 10. What made them leave?: myths and realities of the Irish woman emigrant in the contemporary Irish short story ; Chapter 11. Crossing borders: challenges of refugee women ; Chapter 12. South African destination among African women immigrants.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
