Organizing Immigrant Women in America’s Sweatshops:Lessons from the Los Angeles Garment Worker Center

Sullivan, Richard; Lee, Kimi

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“…Several studies have been written on empowerment programmes for women migrant workers (Peleg & Ayalon, 2015, p. 184). Sullivan and Lee (2008), for example, described how a help centre in Los Angeles helped illegal women migrant workers improve their employment conditions, and taught them to cooperate with other groups of women migrant workers. The centre operated through community empowerment workshops on issues of leadership, social support and political education, as well as by connecting the women to social justice organizations and movements.…”

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To stand tall, to look people in the eye: empowerment of Ethiopian women immigrants via an employment programme

Sharaby

Lipkin

2018

Migration and Development

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To stand tall, to look people in the eye: empowerment of Ethiopian women immigrants via an employment programme

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Lipkin

2018

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How Policy Models Change: Insurgent Narratives of Policy Authority since the Great Recession

Amberg

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We call for incorporating organizations into migration scholarship, and for considering immigrants in organizational research. By centering immigrant organizations (IOs) as a unit of analysis, migration scholars can reconsider whether and how IOs affect well-being, integration, political voice, identities, globalization, and development. Migration scholars must learn from scholars of organizations, but organization scholars must in turn question assumptions of nativity and citizenship in their research. Doing so illuminates the unique challenges—and, at times, opportunities—faced by IOs, especially regarding inequities tied to legal status and stigmatization. We further argue that cross-national and transnational analyses of IOs help unpack organizational embeddedness—that is, the ways in which contexts at the local, national, binational, and geopolitical levels generate opportunities and constraints. Studying IOs raises critical questions of civic inequality and organizational stigma but also highlights IOs’ potential to give voice to and effect positive change for migrant communities.

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Organizing Immigrant Women in America’s Sweatshops:Lessons from the Los Angeles Garment Worker Center

Cited by 4 publications

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To stand tall, to look people in the eye: empowerment of Ethiopian women immigrants via an employment programme

To stand tall, to look people in the eye: empowerment of Ethiopian women immigrants via an employment programme

How Policy Models Change: Insurgent Narratives of Policy Authority since the Great Recession

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