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Daughters of the King and Founders of a Nation: Les Filles du Roi in New FranceRunyan, Aimie Kathleen 05 1900 (has links)
The late seventeenth century was a crucial era in establishing territorial claims on the North American continent. In order to strengthen France's hold on the Quebec colony, Louis XIV sent 770 women across the Atlantic at royal expense in order to populate New France. Since that time, these women known as the filles du roi, have often been reduced to a footnote in history books, or else mistakenly slandered as women of questionable morals. This work seeks to clearly identify the filles du roi through a study of their socioeconomic status, educational background, and various demographic factors, and compare the living conditions they had in France with those that awaited them in Canada. The aim of this undertaking is to better understand these pioneer women and their reasons for leaving France, as well as to identify the lasting contributions they made to French-Canadian culture and society.
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Oral narratives of selected female migrants in South Africa: the case of Thohoyandou, Limpopo ProvinceMusvipwa, Faith Mary 18 May 2017 (has links)
MA (Sociology) / Department of Sociology / The study aimed to explore on the oral narratives of selected female migrants in South Africa. It was a case study of Thohoyandou in the Limpopo Province. Female migrants are faced with integration challenges such as political and socio-economic challenges. The study focused on reflecting on stories of selected female migrants who reside in Thohoyandou. The study was qualitative in nature and utilised a qualitative exploratory research design because it was aimed at exploring perceptions on oral narratives of selected female migrants. The researcher made use of non-probability sampling in the form of purposive sampling method and snowball. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews. Data was then sorted, coded, organised and indexed in a manner that made it easier for the researcher to interpret, analyse and present in content analysis. Text was summarised by checking key themes, phrases or passages that were used in a more detailed analysis. The process was guided by the original aim of the study. Findings of the study postulated that most female migrants came for economic reasons and discrimination is perceived to be an important barrier to integration. Other significant integration barriers include linguistic, educational, and institutional factors. Internal factors (social, cultural, and religious norms, immigrants' own opinions about themselves, lack of motivation and intergenerational mobility) are also serious barriers to integration.
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Division of Labor within the Household: The Experience of Bosnian Immigrant Women in Portland, OregonPaljevic, Miro 27 August 2013 (has links)
This research study examines the impact of international migration of household labor for Bosnian immigrant women living in Portland, Oregon. Bosnia is a society with enduring patriarchal traditions which assume that women are in charge of doing household chores. Men are in charge of providing for the family monetarily. Many Bosnian families migrated to the U.S. in the mid 1990's in order to escape the war in Bosnia. In this study I interview 10 of these Bosnian women, concerning the division of labor in their homes in Bosnia and their homes in U.S. After migrating to the U.S. the amount of work women did within the home lessened as their husbands became more involved in helping with various chores. The changes in the division of household labor did not subvert traditional gender roles. Wives transferred and adapted their views of gender performativity after they migrated to the United States. The results are consistent with research that states that migrant women focus more on advancement of their family rather on their own emancipation.
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Renegotiating home and identity : experiences of Gujarati immigrant women in suburban MontréalNair, Roopa. January 1998 (has links)
No description available.
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Migration et accès au marché du: les effets émancipateurs sur la condition des femmes issues de l'immigration / Immigration and access to the labour market: effects on women migrant emancipationOuali, Nouria 10 September 2008 (has links)
La thèse a pour objet l'émancipation des femmes issues de l'immigration. Elle propose d'évaluer les effets de la migration et de l'accès au marché du travail sur l'émancipation des filles de migrantes d'origine marocaine en Belgique francophone.<p>L'étude tente d'abord de mettre en lumière le rôle des femmes immigrées dans l'histoire de la Belgique en le ré-articulant à l'histoire sociale, l'histoire des femmes et l'histoire de l'immigration. Ensuite, elle montre que l'approche dominante des travaux sur les migrations ne prend pas en compte la dimension du genre, ce qui a pour conséquence de masquer la différenciation des expériences migratoires selon le sexe. Enfin, elle replace l'analyse du statut des femmes immigrées et de leurs descendantes dans la complexité des rapports sociaux de sexe, de race et de classe afin de mieux rendre compte des réalités concrètes et de sortir du simplisme des approches culturalistes.<p>La thèse développe une analyse des politiques d'intégration (politiques éducative, de l'emploi et de lutte contre les discriminations) visant l'émancipation des immigrées et en évalue l'impact sur les filles de migrant-es d'origine marocaine. Elle présente enfin les trajectoires individuelles des filles de migrant.es marocain.es et examine les facteurs individuels et collectifs favorisant leur émancipation.<p> / Doctorat en sciences sociales, Orientation sociologie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
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New heroines of the diaspora : reading gender identity in South Asian diasporic fictionBanerjee, Lopa 06 1900 (has links)
This thesis looks at literature
by two South Asian, diasporic writers, Jhumpa Lahiri and Monica
Ali, as a space where creative,
cross-cultural and independent
identities for diasporic women might be created.
The central claim of the thesis
is that diasporic migration
affects South Asian women in
particular ways.
The most positive outcome is that
these women adopt new trans-border
identities but that these remain
shaped by class, culture and
gender. Hence a working class
milieu such as the one depicted
by Monica Ali, leads to an
immigrant, ghetto-ised,
community-based identity,
located solely in the land of
adoption, with return or travel to
the homeland no longer possible.
However, the milieu imagined in
Jhumpa Lahiri’s text, a middle-class, suburban environment, creates a solitary, transnational
identity, lived between countries,
where travel between the land of
birth and the land of adoption
remains accessible. / English / M.A. (English)
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The impact of gender and ethnicity on the use of mental health services : a case study of twenty immigrant and refugee womenJohnson, M. Audrey 05 1900 (has links)
The voices and experiences of immigrant and refugee
women in Canada have been conspicuously absent from policy
issues, programme planning, and mental health literature.
However, more immigrant and refugee women than men, from
traditional cultures, are considered to have mental health
needs, because of risk factors such as stress at the time of
migration, and because of Canadian policies and programmes
which disadvantage them. This study explores from the
consumers perspective the reasons for disparate mental
health service utilization between South Asian and Latin
American women in Vancouver.
Using a cross-sectional, exploratory, case study
approach, and a feminist perspective, ten South Asian and
ten Latin American women who have used mental health
services were interviewed in depth. Sixty percent of the
participants were survivors of violence and torture. Five
Latin American women were survivors of pre-migration
catastrophic stress. Their mental health needs were
characterised by traumatic experiences, grieving and
depression. Except for the three who were married, they had
no traditional support networks. In contrast with the South
Asian group they appeared to have less shame and covert
behaviour. Mental illness, considered a ‘house secret’, carries
great stigma in the South Asian community, and has serious
ramifications for the immediate as well as the extended
family. Among South Asian participants seven had been
subjected to wife battering, and four of their spouses had a
substance abuse problem. Their mental health needs were
also triggered by traumatic experiences, grieving and
depression. The more established South Asian women had
extended family living in Vancouver, yet social support was
still lacking.
Having ‘no one to turn to’ was a pervasive theme across
both groups of women; their experiences characterised by
loss. Analysis of data exploring the decision to use
services illustrates stages in a process of recovery from
experienced violence.
Post migration domestic violence and pre-migration
violence have devastating, life-shattering consequences
which require culturally sensitive interventions by social
workers and other health care professionals. An obligatory
stage in the clinical intervention process is to explore the
issue of violence. Finally, policy decisions which impact
upon women from ethnocultural communities in Canada must
embrace a philosophy which considers well-trained,
culturally-sensitive, linguistically—competent workers a
priority.
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New heroines of the diaspora : reading gender identity in South Asian diasporic fictionBanerjee, Lopa 06 1900 (has links)
This thesis looks at literature
by two South Asian, diasporic writers, Jhumpa Lahiri and Monica
Ali, as a space where creative,
cross-cultural and independent
identities for diasporic women might be created.
The central claim of the thesis
is that diasporic migration
affects South Asian women in
particular ways.
The most positive outcome is that
these women adopt new trans-border
identities but that these remain
shaped by class, culture and
gender. Hence a working class
milieu such as the one depicted
by Monica Ali, leads to an
immigrant, ghetto-ised,
community-based identity,
located solely in the land of
adoption, with return or travel to
the homeland no longer possible.
However, the milieu imagined in
Jhumpa Lahiri’s text, a middle-class, suburban environment, creates a solitary, transnational
identity, lived between countries,
where travel between the land of
birth and the land of adoption
remains accessible. / English / M.A. (English)
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The impact of gender and ethnicity on the use of mental health services : a case study of twenty immigrant and refugee womenJohnson, M. Audrey 05 1900 (has links)
The voices and experiences of immigrant and refugee
women in Canada have been conspicuously absent from policy
issues, programme planning, and mental health literature.
However, more immigrant and refugee women than men, from
traditional cultures, are considered to have mental health
needs, because of risk factors such as stress at the time of
migration, and because of Canadian policies and programmes
which disadvantage them. This study explores from the
consumers perspective the reasons for disparate mental
health service utilization between South Asian and Latin
American women in Vancouver.
Using a cross-sectional, exploratory, case study
approach, and a feminist perspective, ten South Asian and
ten Latin American women who have used mental health
services were interviewed in depth. Sixty percent of the
participants were survivors of violence and torture. Five
Latin American women were survivors of pre-migration
catastrophic stress. Their mental health needs were
characterised by traumatic experiences, grieving and
depression. Except for the three who were married, they had
no traditional support networks. In contrast with the South
Asian group they appeared to have less shame and covert
behaviour. Mental illness, considered a ‘house secret’, carries
great stigma in the South Asian community, and has serious
ramifications for the immediate as well as the extended
family. Among South Asian participants seven had been
subjected to wife battering, and four of their spouses had a
substance abuse problem. Their mental health needs were
also triggered by traumatic experiences, grieving and
depression. The more established South Asian women had
extended family living in Vancouver, yet social support was
still lacking.
Having ‘no one to turn to’ was a pervasive theme across
both groups of women; their experiences characterised by
loss. Analysis of data exploring the decision to use
services illustrates stages in a process of recovery from
experienced violence.
Post migration domestic violence and pre-migration
violence have devastating, life-shattering consequences
which require culturally sensitive interventions by social
workers and other health care professionals. An obligatory
stage in the clinical intervention process is to explore the
issue of violence. Finally, policy decisions which impact
upon women from ethnocultural communities in Canada must
embrace a philosophy which considers well-trained,
culturally-sensitive, linguistically—competent workers a
priority. / Arts, Faculty of / Social Work, School of / Graduate
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