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Racialized Migrant Women in Canada

Essays on Health, Violence and Equity

edited by Vijay Agnew

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Jun 2009
Category
General, Emigration & Immigration
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802099044
    Publish Date
    Jun 2009
    List Price
    $109.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802096050
    Publish Date
    Jun 2009
    List Price
    $52.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442693401
    Publish Date
    Jun 2009
    List Price
    $41.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442689848
    Publish Date
    Jun 2009
    List Price
    $96.00

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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.

About the author

Vijay Agnew immigrated from India in 1970 and studied at the University of Waterloo and the University of Toronto. A professor of social science, she has taught at York University in Toronto since 1976, and is director of the Centre for Feminist Research. She is author of Resisting Discrimination: Women from Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean and the Women’s Movement in Canada, which won the Gustavus Myers Award in 1997 as “an outstanding book on the subject of human rights in North America.” Her other books are In Search of a Safe Place: Abused Women and Culturally Sensitive Services and Elite Women in Indian Politics.

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Editorial Reviews

Racialized Women in Canada makes a valuable contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship, and will be of interest to feminists and antiracist researchers engaged in studies of healthcare, legal and social policy, and local organizing. It documents marginalization and prejudice that result from bad public policy and provides nuanced explorations about how these inequalities can be systematically addressed.

Sarah Rudrum, <em>Journal of International Women's Studies</em>, vol 11:04:10