Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age

Author: Nilda Flores-Gonzalez
Secondary Author: Anna Romina Guevarra
ISBN: 9780252079115

This collection of articles features interdisciplinary perspectives on an underrepresented labor force. To date, most research on immigrant women and labor forces has focused on the participation of immigrant women in formal labor markets. In this study, contributors focus on informal economies such as health care, domestic work, street vending, and the garment industry, where displaced and undocumented women are more likely to work. Because such informal labor markets are unregulated, many of these workers face abusive working conditions that are not reported for fear of job loss or deportation. In examining the complex dynamics of how immigrant women navigate political and economic uncertainties, this collection highlights the important role of citizenship status in defining immigrant women's opportunities, wages, and labor conditions. --From publisher's website.

Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publish Date: 2013

Subjects: Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations, Social Science / Emigration & Immigration, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Immigration)