Localized Impact of Global Restructuring of Work: Border-Crossing Stories of Iranian Women

Abstract

status, as shown in Nadia's narrative, is sustained by racialized (it is all right for women of color to work for nothing) and feminized (women are inclined by nature to undertake social service work) discourses.What I have presented above are not merely case examples but representations of a growing body of work on the power/knowledge nexus of the intersectionality paradigm (Aylward

The Newcomer Women of Aliddesa: Exploring Practices of Resettlement, Citizenship, and Community Development in Toronto

“…ii Abu-Laban (2000), has also suggested that the gendered structure of networks makes for unequal access to the resources and the types of information that are necessary for newcomer women to engage in their communities. Because of these dynamics, Dossa (2002), argues that the lives of 'immigrant women do not form part of the social and national imagination of the state'(pg.21).…”