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Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age
Nild Flores-Gonzalez
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Description for Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age
Hardback. Highlights the important role of citizenship status in defining immigrant women's opportunities, wages, and labour conditions. Editor(s): Flores-Gonzalez, Nilda; Guevarra, Anna Romina; Toro-Morn, Maura I.; Chang, Grace. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSJ1; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 28. .
To date, most research on immigrant women and labor forces has focused on the participation of immigrant women on formal labor markets. In this study, contributors focus on informal economies such as health care, domestic work, street vending, and the garment industry, where displaced and undocumented women are more likely to work. Because such informal labor markets are unregulated, many of these workers face abusive working conditions that are not reported for fear of job loss or deportation. In examining the complex dynamics of how immigrant women navigate political and economic uncertainties, this collection highlights the important role of citizenship ... Read more
To date, most research on immigrant women and labor forces has focused on the participation of immigrant women on formal labor markets. In this study, contributors focus on informal economies such as health care, domestic work, street vending, and the garment industry, where displaced and undocumented women are more likely to work. Because such informal labor markets are unregulated, many of these workers face abusive working conditions that are not reported for fear of job loss or deportation. In examining the complex dynamics of how immigrant women navigate political and economic uncertainties, this collection highlights the important role of citizenship ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252037573
SKU
V9780252037573
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About Nild Flores-Gonzalez
Nilda Flores-González is an associate professor with a joint appointment in sociology and the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Anna Romina Guevarra is an associate professor of Asian American studies and affiliated faculty in gender & women's studies and sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Maura Toro-Morn is a professor ... Read more
Reviews for Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age
"By including the voices of the women currently doing the majority of reproductive work in the US, Immigrant Women Workers adds an important element to the conversation. Immigrant Women Workers captures many of the issues of perpetual importance to immigrant women workers."
Women's Review of Books "This work carries important implications for labor educators and organizers… This book solidly ... Read more
Women's Review of Books "This work carries important implications for labor educators and organizers… This book solidly ... Read more