Contested Voices Women Immigrants in Today's World [Hardcover]

A comprehensive and stimulating examination of how the migration of women affects attitudes in receiving countries, among the women themselves, and how changing women's attitudes shapes their relations with men and between generations within ethnic groups.Introduction 1. Structure and Agency: The Discourse on Immigration PART I: DEFINING WOMEN IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES: THE OFFICIAL VOICE - PROTOCOLS, LAWS, AND POLICIES 2. From Laissez Faire to Regulation: The Emergence of Immigration Policy 3. Government Policies and Women Immigrants: Establishing Conditions And Constructing Identities 4. Fleeing Calamity, Seeking Asylum: Women and Refugee Policy PART II: MANAGING SOCIAL PRESSURES IN THE WORK PLACE AND THEIR COMMUNITY 5. Ethnic Communities and the Construction of Identity 6. Between Dependence and Independence: Immigrant Women in the Work Force PART III: IMMIGRANT WOMEN SPEAKING FOR THEMSELVES 7. Listening to Women Creating Their Own Social Identity

Contested Voices is a compelling and up-to-date book about women and immigration. Marianne Githens' gripping accounts reveal the global immigration dilemmas facing us today and the pressures and policies that got us here. By highlighting the intersecting impacts of gender, race, ethnicity, and religion, Contested Voices provides an important guide to understanding contemporary immigration issues and points to solutions for how we might best resolve the problems. - Shira Tarrant, Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, California State University, USA

Contested Voices is a must read for all interested in understanding the complex and gendered nature of immigration. Marianne Githens explores the numerous challenges confronting immigrant women and analyzes how these agents (re)construct their identities in the face of these constraints. Githens's tour de force is her examination of an impressive range of immigration experiences from a comparative and intersectional l3c