Racialized migrant women in Canada : essays on health, violence and equity / edited by Vijay Agnew. - Toronto ; Buffalo, NY : University of Toronto Press, c2009. - viii, 329 p. : ill., forms. ; 23 cm.

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The complicity of the state in the intimate abuse of immigrant women / Janet E. Mosher -- Violence in immigrant families in Halifax / Barbara Cottrell, Evangelia Tastsoglou, Carmen Celina Moncayo -- Gender, migration, and health / Arlene S. Bierman, Farah Ahmad, Farah N. Mawani -- Policy (in)action : policy-making, health, and migrant women / Denise L. Spitzer -- Review of health and policy research on older immigrants / Ito Peng, Margot Lettner -- Exploring social capital among women in the context of migration : engendering the public policy debate / Bilkis Vissandjâee, Alisha Apale, Saskia Wieringa -- Immigrant women and earnings inequality in Canada / Monica Boyd, Jessica Yiu -- Migrant Muslim women's interests and the case of 'shari'a' tribunals in Ontario / Annie Bunting, Shadi Mokhtari -- Haitian-Canadians' experiences of racism in Quebec : a postcolonial feminist perspective / Louise Racine -- Challenging gendered and ethno-racial assumptions in organizing for housing rights / Jill Hanley.

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Women immigrants--Social conditions.--Canada
Minority women--Social conditions.--Canada
Mujeres inmigrantes--Condiciones sociales.--Canadá
Mujeres minoritarias--Condiciones sociales.--Canadá
Immigrantes--Conditions sociales.--Canada
Femmes issues des minorites--Conditions sociales.--Canada


Canada--Race relations.
Canadá--Relaciones raciales.
Canada--Relations raciales.

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