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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Women immigrants"”.
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Barriers to Prevetative Health Care fo Indian Women Immigrants
… it is more difficult for South Asian immigrant women to seek preventive health care and what health care professionals can do to minimize this.</p> <p><strong>Design</strong>: This is a descriptive survey research study to obtain the information needed to understand immigrant Indian women's …
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Essays on Socio-Economic Integration of Migrants in the UK Labour Market: Access (or Lack of Access) to the Professional Class, Gendering of Occupations and Earning Trajectories
… socio-economic integration of men and women immigrants (‘Old’ and ‘New’) relative to United Kingdom (UK) born White in the UK labour market. In order to assess my research hypotheses I use both cross-sectional and panel data based on the world’s largest panel survey: UK Household …
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La Vida en el Norte [Life in the North], Three Mexican Women in the Roanoke Valley
… essence of the inquiry. How do Mexican immigrant women living in the Roanoke Valley describe their lives back in Mexico? How do Mexican immigrant women living in the Roanoke Valley describe their lives in the United States? Interviews with three first-generation Mexican female immigrants currently …
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Irish women in the United States 1870-1914 : a case study: factory workers
… environmental and occupational change: Irish women immigrants employed in factories in the United States, 1870-1914.</p><p>Did these Irish immigrant women who labored in factories retain their traditional set of personal values once they reached the highly industrial urban scene of the …
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Jewish women in Glasgow c1880-1950: gender ethnicity and the immigrant experience
… Scottish past. By examining the experiences of women in immigrant Jewish families and including gender analysis, it also forms an addition to British/Jewish history. The development of a Jewish community is examined in chronological format beginning with the arrival of immigrants from Eastern …
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Home and national belonging : narratives of Zimbabwean middle class women in Cape Town
… collected from Zimbabwean black middle class women residing in the South Africa’s coastal city of Cape Town. The narratives construct and locate participants in the main South Africa xenophobia immigration discourse. The research attempts to answer the question: How do mainstream discourses of …
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Identifying the socio-economic impacts of the 2019-2020 refugee occupation and COVID-19 related restrictions on immigrant-owned businesses in the urban informal sector of Greenmarket Square, Cape Town
… sampling approach to include both men and women immigrants from Africa who traded in the GMS craft market from a stall. Interviews were conducted both face-to-face and via telephone and supplemented by direct non-participant observation. The main findings included that the refugee …
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Old Europe versus New Europe: cultural similarity tolerance, religion and anti-Americanism in a divided European Union
… levels of anti-Americanism and tolerance towards women, immigrants/foreign workers and immigrants in Old Europe versus New Europe. New Europe and the United States are, in general, more intolerant than Old Europe. The results presented in this dissertation provide a better understanding of …
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Bridging the Gap: Exploring the Experiences of South Asian Women Immigrant Teachers in Toronto
… dissertation, I share the voices of South Asian women immigrant school teachers living in Toronto. In this era of global mass migration and the increasing number of women immigrants, I argue that it is important to examine how gender and race affect racialized immigrant women’s working …
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The study of independent African migrant women in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) : their lives and work experiences
… gender profile. SkPIed, professional and businesswomen of African origin are now migrating independently to South Africa. This new face oftAfrican migration is transforming South African society and culture. African women from other countries have migrated to South Africa with parts of their …
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Selectivity, Transferability of Skills and Labor Market Outcomes of Recent Immigrants in the United States
This dissertation analyzes how immigrants' individual and home country characteristics affect and determine their labor market participation, returns to education and wages in both their country of origin (before migration occurs) and in the United States. The dissertation also estimates the extent …
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Migration and cultural identity: Performing the Afro-Caribbean woman's struggle
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Anglo-Indian women in Western Australia: Past, present and future identities
The Anglo-Indian community and Anglo-Indian women in particular have been described as 'mixed-race' and 'hybrid'. This study seeks to explore the identity of Anglo-Indian women through the process of migration and settlement in Australia, by following the lives of twenty-six women. Twenty of these …
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The construction of identity through race and ethnicity : coloured South African women in Western Australia
… an exploration of how coloured South African women living in Western Australia construct their identities focusing on the dimensions of race and ethnicity. There is a dearth of research in Australia with migrants of mixed racial backgrounds. This work was seen as an important contribution to …
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