Intersectionality as a Social Movement Strategy: Asian Immigrant Women Advocates

Chun, Jennifer Jihye; Lipsitz, George; Shin, Young Sook

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“…The narratives and data from the studies depicting the glass and bamboo ceilings many AAPIW struggle with and their daily experiences of marginalization, call for further research on how the intersectionality of race, class, and gender influence their resilience. By conducting intersectionality research about AAPIW, researchers can use their methods as a research investigation and a social/political advocacy strategy for AAPIW (Chun, Lipsitz, & Shin, 2013).…”

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Asian American women's resilience: An integrative review

Reyes¹,

Constantino²

2016

Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal

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Asian American women face unique stressors that threaten their overall health and well-being. However, resilience is a phenomenon that allows individuals to develop positive adaptation despite adversities and challenges. This integrative review is conducted in order to explore the current state of knowledge regarding the resilience of Asian American women. Twelve databases were used to identify related articles: Academic Search Premier, CI-NAHL, ERIC, Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global, ProQuest Sociological Abstracts, PsycINFO, PubMed, SAGE (Psychology and Sociology collections), Scopus, and Web of Science. Twenty-one research studies met the inclusion criteria of the integrative review. Five common themes emerged from the analysis of the studies: (a) resilience as conceptualized as a coping strategy, (b) resilience as related to social support and network, (c) resilience as an enduring phenomenon, (d) resilience as connected to bicultural identity, and (e) resilience as an emancipatory perspective and experience. These themes imply that resilience is a developmental process, culture has a significant influence on resilience, and Asian American women are a vulnerable and marginalized group. Further recommendations for nursing practice and research are discussed as related to these implications. Keywords: Asian American women, coping, resilience, resiliencyResilience is the ability to process and manage experiences that buffer the negative effects of stress; it allows individuals to overcome challenges and helps them develop positive adaptation skills despite setbacks (Dyer & McGuinness, 1996;Luthar, Cicchetti, & Becker, 2000;Rutter, 1993 Asian/Pacific Islander women living in the United States-whether newcomers, immigrants, permanent residents, or citizens-face specific mental health challenges. For example, in a national survey, AAPIW had the highest rate compared to White, Black, and Hispanic women of reporting trauma from being a refugee or civilian in a war zone (Roberts, Gilman, Breslau, Breslau, & Koenen, 2011). AAPIW hold more negative cognitions (i.e., views about the self, the world, and self-blame) than their White counterparts about sexual abuse events that occurred in the past, which increases their likelihood of developingCreative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which allows others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can't change them in any way or use them commercially. (Curtin, Warner, & Hedegaard, 2016). Suicide is the second leading cause of death among AAPIW aged 20 to 24 years (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013). In a study of acculturated AAPIW, over 40% of participants reported currently experiencing moderate to severe depression while 57% of these AAPIW did not have depression (Augsberger, Yeung, Dougher, & Hahm, 2015). Studies have shown that stress rela...

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Asian American women's resilience: An integrative review

Reyes¹,

Constantino²

2016

Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal

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“…Prodded by insights on intersectionality (see recent reviews and developments by Cho, Crenshaw, & McCall, 2013;Chun, Lipsitz, & Shin, 2013;Verloo, 2013), social movement scholars have increasingly sought to understand how activists negotiate overlapping positional and cultural differences in the social world (e.g., Beamish & Luebbers, 2009;Braunstein, Fulton, & Wood, 2014;Brecher & Costello, 1990;Gamson, 1997;Ghaziani, 2011;Lichterman, 1995Lichterman, , 2005Longard, 2013;Mayer, 2009;Nakano, 2013;Reger, Myers, & Einwohner, 2008;Roth, 2003Roth, , 2008Smith, 2002;Snarr, 2009;Swarts, 2011;Wood, Fulton, & Partridge, 2012;Yukich, 2010). One way that social movement scholars have attempted to address this question is through attention to "bridging work" or "bridge building" in social movements, which is a "form of social movement interaction that focuses explicitly on efforts to overcome and negotiate conflicts that result from different collective identities," usually in a way that takes into account the concerns of all actors involved (Roth, 2003, p. 9; see also Beamish & Luebbers, 2009;Braunstein et al, 2014;Brecher & Costello, 1990;Ghaziani, 2011;Lichterman, 2005;Mayer, 2009;Roth, 2008;Smith, 2002;Snarr, 2009;Wood et al, 2012).…”

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Social Movements and Bridge Building: Religious and Sexual Identity Conflicts

Coley¹

2014

Intersectionality and Social Change

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“…Although it acknowledges that people have multiple identities, it is concerned with "the way things work rather than who people are [10]." An intersectional perspective was used in the analysis of the data from this study.…”

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Identifying barriers to ethnic/racial minority students’ participation in graduate physics

Cochran¹,

Hodapp²,

Brown³

2018

2017 Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings

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Historically, access to education in the U.S. has not been equitable. Furthermore, intersectionality, the interaction of multiple identities, results in educational experiences that vary widely for diverse groups of students with implications for the recruitment of future students. To better understand barriers to ethnic/racial minority students participating in graduate education a study has been conducted through the APS Bridge program, a program designed to increase the number of ethnic/racial minorities earning PhDs in physics. In phase one of this study, we analyzed student responses to an application question regarding why they chose not to apply to graduate physics programs. To further understand the barriers identified in the first phase of this study, we interviewed nine participants in the 2016 Cohort of the APS Bridge program. The results of this study have implications for a variety of stakeholders interested in broadening participation in graduate physics education.

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Intersectionality as a Social Movement Strategy: Asian Immigrant Women Advocates

Cited by 208 publications

References 11 publications

Asian American women's resilience: An integrative review

Asian American women's resilience: An integrative review

Social Movements and Bridge Building: Religious and Sexual Identity Conflicts

Identifying barriers to ethnic/racial minority students’ participation in graduate physics

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