Immigrant Women Workers

Immigrant Women Workers Project

Each student will select and read one of the following chapters in Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age and

[1] find additional research on immigrant workers related* to that chapter; and

[2] prepare a class poster presentation on your research.

During class on November 22nd, each student will do a poster presentation on their Immigrant Women Workers project. All posters must include a list of references with full and correct citations of sources. Email me your presentation slides by December 20^th, 4pm.

Assignment Handout

Chapters that may be used - Sign up here

· Chapter 1. Quiroz-Becerra, Street vendors claiming respect and dignity. Pgs 19-37.

· Chapter 4. Gurun & Purkayastha, Gendered labor: Experiences of Nepali women within pan-ethnic informal labor markets in Boston and New York.

· Chapter 5. Banerjee, Paradoxes of patriarchy: Contradicting experiences of South Asian women in ethnic labor markets.

· Chapter 6. Chin, Changing expectations: Economic downturns and immigrant Chinese women in New York City.

· Chapter 7. Munoz, From street child care to drive-throughs: Latinas reconfigure and negotiate street vending space in Los Angeles.

· Chapter 8. Estrada & Hondagneu-Sotelo, Living the third shift: Latina adolescent street vendors in Los Angeles.

· Chapter 9. Fisher & Kang, Reinventing dirty work: Immigrant women in nursing homes.

· Chapter 10. Ibarra, Extending kinship: Mexican elder care providers and their wards.

* Ways to find “related” research:

1. Look at the references at the end of your chapter, and read those references.

2. Put the author(s) name and title of chapter into Google Scholar (not plain Google), and see if it pops up – then click on the “Cited by N” at the bottom of the search result.

3. Put any of these sources into a library database, such as Web of Science, and see who has cited them, or what references they list.

* “related” = about the same ethnicity in the U.S., about immigrant women workers in the same occupation in the U.S., and/or about the issues raised in the chapter.

You may include research on community or workers’ organizations whose work relates to the experiences of the workers in your chapter (note the chapters in Part 4 of this book on organizing).

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