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Geographies of gender and generation : a qualitative, longitudinal analysis of the intersectionality of gender, age and placeAhmed, Nilufer Raihan January 2013 (has links)
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An exploratory study of the marital adjustment of Chinese female new arrivals in Hong KongLi, Lee-yen, Laura., 李麗妍. January 1990 (has links)
published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work
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A study of the family life adaptation of new immigrant wives from ChinaChung, Lai-ping., 鍾麗萍. January 1996 (has links)
published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work
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"At your own risk" : narratives of Zimbabwean migrant sex workers in Hillbrow and discourses of vulnerability, agency, and power.Schuler, Greta 27 September 2013 (has links)
This study explores the self-representations of cross-border migrant, female sex workers
in Johannesburg and compares these representations to those created by public discourses around
cross-border migration, sex work, and gender. With a focus on issues of agency, vulnerability,
and power, the study questions the impact of prevalent representations of these women by others
on their individual self-representations. The participatory approach of this study builds on
previous participatory research projects with migrant sex workers in Johannesburg and employs
creative writing as a methodology to generate narratives and thus adds to literature about
alternative methodologies for reaching currently marginalised and under-researched groups.
Organisations such as Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) and Sisonke
Sex Worker Movement have worked with sex workers to generate digital stories for advocacy;
however, academic research employing storytelling as a methodology has not been done with
migrant sex workers in South Africa. While existing evidence indicates that cross-border
migrant, female sex workers are often marginalised by state and non-state actors professing to
assist them, this study emphasizes the voices of the women themselves. Over the course of three
months, I conducted creative writing workshops with five female Zimbabwean sex workers in
Hillbrow, Johannesburg; the women generated stories in these workshops that became the basis
for one-on-one unstructured interviews. I compared the self-representations that emerged from
this process with the representations of migrant sex workers that I determined from a desk
review of the websites of organisations that contribute to trafficking and sex work discourses in
South Africa.
With the Prevention and Combating of Trafficking in Persons Bill close to becoming law
in South Africa and the prevalent assumption that systemic trafficking problems are related to the
sex industry and irregular migration, developing a better understanding of migrants involved in
sex work in South Africa is particularly important. Furthermore, a national focus on reducing and
even preventing immigration—and the stigma attached to migrants—adds urgency to the
elucidation of the lives of migrants. This study investigates how female Zimbabwean sex
workers in Johannesburg—often positioned as vulnerable and sometimes misidentified as
trafficked—see themselves in a country increasingly concerned with issues of (anti-)immigration
and (anti-)trafficking. Furthermore, sex work is criminalized in South Africa and social mores
attach stigma to prostitution. Contrary to assumptions that all sex workers are forced into the
industry or foreign sex workers trafficked into the country, the participants in this study spoke of
active choices in their lives—including choices about their livelihood and their movement—and
describe their vulnerabilities and strengths. Perhaps the most striking similarity between
participants was the women’s acknowledgement of the dangers they face and the decisions they
make, weighing risks and gains. This recognition of agency ran through the six key themes that I
generated through thematic analysis: Conflicting Representations of Sex Work, Stigma and
Double Existence, Health and Safety, Importance of Independence, Morality of Remittances, and
Mobility. Throughout the analysis, I argue that the participants in the study present themselves as
aware of the dangers they face and calculating the risks. The participants responded
enthusiastically to the creative writing methodology—through their stories, discussions, and
interviews, they portrayed a complex, at times ambiguous, portrait of migrant sex workers in
South Africa. While recognizing their double vulnerability—as illegally engaging in sex work
and, often, illegally residing in South Africa, they also emphasized their strength and agency.
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Preserving the "glory of the past" : the Native Daughters of British Columbia and the construction of pioneer history in the Hastings Mill MuseumEllis, Cassidy Rose 11 1900 (has links)
In 1929 the old Hastings Mill Store building was towed by scow from
Vancouver's inner harbour to its present location near Spanish Banks in Point Grey. In
the following two years, the Native Daughters of British Columbia transformed the old
building in to a museum to preserve historical relics of the early days of Vancouver.
Their museum recounted pioneer histories of journey to, and settlement in, British
Columbia in order to celebrate European development of the region, promote
Vancouver's connection with the British Empire, and encourage future economic growth
in the city.
Today, the Native Daughters continue to operate this quirky and curious museum.
Their exclusive tale of European pioneer history has been preserved in its original form,
untouched by decades of museological change and post-colonial critique of cultural
representation. The thesis uses the Hastings Mill Museum as a case study in heritage
preservation in British Columbia. It claims that the museum itself is an artifact. It is a
material remnant of an important movement in local history when such groups as the
Native Daughters used the preservation of the past to address contemporary political and
social concerns.
Representing an idealized pioneer past provided an important source of political
and social power for the Native Daughters. Through the Hastings Mill Museum, the
Native Daughters helped its members - and the province's community of native-born,
Anglo-European - affirm their status as a genealogical and historical elite. The Native
Daughters used a variant of the North American "pioneer myth," a nostalgic
interpretation of local history that distilled the city's history into a simple narrative of
anglo-European settlement, sacrifice and development, to document their claim to the
region's political, institutional, and economic power. Their use of heritage preservation
as a source of power was shaped by gender. The Daughters used their position as
"guardians" and "nurturers" of the region's heritage in order to promote and strengthen
the position of their community of white, native-born British Columbians.
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Immigration, assimilation and fertility: a study of Black African immigrants in VancouverNyadoi, Florence 11 1900 (has links)
This study examines how in the context of international
migration, ethnic (cultural) assimilation may influence fertility
and attitudes towards fertility. The relationships between ethnic
assimilation (measured by the extent to which immigrants will have
subscribed to the core values of Canadian society through life
style or behaviourial characteristics and social networks),
socioeconomic status (that is, level of education and income), and
six variables used to measure fertility and attitudes towards
fertility of Black African immigrant women in Canada are examined.
These include: ideal number of children; ideal number of Sons;
currently preventing pregnancy; currently pregnant or trying to get
pregnant; children ever born still living and more sons than
daughters. The African women who participated in the study were all
immigrants in Canada, selected from the different African
communities. Only women in their child bearing years were selected.
An attempt was made to include women from all the different
categories of immigrants. Africans that were not black and blacks
from North America and the Caribbean were excluded from the sample.
Data collection for the study was at the micro-level. In total, 165
questionnaires, consisting of structured questions were handed out.
Results revealed statistically significant relationships
between ethnic assimilation and fertility and attitudes towards
fertility. For example, a significant relationship existed between
attending African dances, parties and informal social affairs, and currently preventing pregnancy, and pregnant or trying to get
pregnant. A significant negative correlation was found between
income and children ever born that were still living. Age too was
found to be related to fertility, with women in the older
age—group (35-44) reporting higher averages for ideal number of
children and sons, as opposed to those in the younger age—groups
and the entire population. Surprisingly enough, no significant
relationships were recorded between level of education, feeling of
ethnicity, maintenance of contact with homeland, years spent in
Canada, residence in Africa, the category immigrants belonged to,
and fertility as originally anticipated.
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An evaluation of a long term care aide/ESL programWilson, Silvia M. 05 1900 (has links)
This two-part study evaluates a government sponsored Long Term Care Aide/ESL
Program taken by a group of immigrant women. The purpose of the first part of the study was to
assess how effective a B.C. government sponsored Long Term Care Aide/ESL program was in
preparing a group of immigrant women for the workplace. A questionnaire was used to
determine demographics and employment status. Also, it obtained perceptions on the strengths
and weaknesses of the program. The purpose of the second part of this study was to hear the
women's personal insights and voices about their experiences while taking the program and after
the program. Semi-structured interviews were used to obtain these stories. Results from the
quantitative questionnaire indicated that 94% of the immigrant women who had taken this course
were employed as care aides. Three years after the completion this program, the women felt that
the course had provided them with both a vocational skill and more English language skills.
Results from the qualitative portion of this paper focused on how the women felt about
their experiences in this Long Term Care Aide/ESL program in their own words. The data were
analyzed and put into themes. Theme 1 was "The pain of renewal". It presented their collective
stories of being an immigrant and struggling to begin again. Theme 2 was "The costs and the
benefits". This theme presented the women's insights on working as care aides. Most of the
women liked their jobs but found trying to secure a full time job difficult. Theme 3 was "The
need to learn the language of care". All the women interviewed wanted to have more "caring"
language, the "everyday" language to relate to their clients. Theme 4 was "Advice to other
immigrant women". This theme revealed how some women felt about the work they did. The
last theme, Theme 5, was "Hopes and dreams". Half of the women interviewed had aspirations
to continue their education and these women were already enrolled in other health care courses.
The results of the study are discussed and implications are drawn for research and
pedagogy.
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Affective metamorphoses : formations of community in the black British female bildungsromanCarlson, Lisa M. 22 May 2012 (has links)
My study examines three female Black British bildungsromane: Monica Ali’s Brick Lane, Joan Riley’s Waiting in the Twilight, and Buchi Emecheta’s Second-Class Citizen. By combining a study of a relatively established novel form with contemporary female diasporic fictions, my work looks at how gender, race and location complicate the tropes of the genre, while still adhering to many of its parameters. I explore ways in which the existential states of loneliness, isolation, and solitude faced by the female protagonists in England assist or inhibit the formation of collectivity and subjectivity. This study pays particular attention to ways that community formation and friendship, as well as work and affective labor, serve as means to find/create a sense of home in diasporic conditions, as in Brick Lane and Second-Class Citizen. I also study how a sense of community falters because of a disconnection from productive work in Waiting in the Twilight. / Department of English
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Socio-cultural factors affecting the language learning experiences of South Asian female immigrantsSteinbach, Marilyn. January 1998 (has links)
This qualitative case study describes the language learning experiences of four South Asian women from their perspectives and uses tools of ethnographic inquiry such as interviews, participant observations and document analysis. The socio-cultural factors affecting their language learning process and acculturation are analyzed. Key elements of the lived experiences of these South Asian females surfacing in the case study data are isolation and gender inequity. Socio-cultural identity emerges as a very influential factor in the language learning process. I understand this identity as socially constructed, contradictory, and fluid. Peirce's poststructuralist conception of social identity as multiple, a site of struggle, and subject to change is used in the theoretical framework. Her concept of "investment" is employed to describe immigrant women's involvement in the language learning process. An umbrella category termed the "weight of society" is used to explain the influences of socio-cultural norms on the language learning processes of the four research participants. Implications for immigrant language training policies and further research are suggested.
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Being "brown" in a small white town : young Guyanese women negotiating identities in Canada.Cheddie, Stephanie January 2005 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2005.
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