Racialized Migrant Women in Canada: Essays on Health, Violence and Equity

Vijay Agnew

University of Toronto Press, 2009 - Social Science - 329 pages

Despite legislative guarantees of equality, immigrant women in Canada often experience many forms of prejudice in their everyday lives. Racialized Migrant Women in Canada delves into the public and private spheres of several distinct communities in order to expose the underlying inequalities within Canada's economic, social, legal, and political systems that frequently result in the denial of basic rights to migrant women.

Using interdisciplinary approaches drawn from the areas of sociology, law, health studies, and political science, the essays in this volume cover diverse topics such as the social construction of Muslim women, access to health care, and violence against women. The contributors base their work not only in cities with large immigrant populations but also in areas less densely populated with immigrants, revealing regional disparities in regard to economic opportunity and social services.

Contents

• IMMIGRANT WOMEN AND VIOLENCE: 37
• Violence in Immigrant Families in Halifax: 70
• IMMIGRANT WOMEN AND HEALTH: 95

About the author

Vijay Agnew is a professor in the Division of Social Science at York University, and was the director of the Center for Feminist Research from 2001 to 2006.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Racialized Migrant Women in Canada: Essays on Health, Violence and Equity; G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series; Racialized Migrant Women in Canada: Essays on Health, Violence and Equity, Vijay Agnew
• Editor: Vijay Agnew
• Edition: 2, illustrated
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2009
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jul 14, 2010
• ISBN: 0802099041, 9780802099044
• Length: 329 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Emigration & Immigration; Social Science / Sociology / General; Social Science / Women's Studies