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“Negotiated challenges in the workplace: Immigrant women’s views and experiences of employment in Canada”: Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work 27 (4), 420-434

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“Negotiated challenges in the workplace: Immigrant women’s views and experiences of employment in Canada”: Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work 27 (4), 420-434

On the basis of a qualitative study with immigrant women in Windsor, Ontario, this article looks at women’s responses to the challenges they face in the Canadian workplace, together with the value they place on working outside the home. The women reflected on their job searches, employment conditions, and work experiences as mediated by the norms and traditions of their home countries. Because of the struggle to obtain a job and the delicacy of retaining a job in a precarious economic climate, the women did not fight the discrimination they encountered in the workplace.

About the Author

Uzo Anucha is an Associate Professor in York University’s Department of Social Work and the founding director of the Applied Social Welfare Research and Evaluation Group. Her work and research interests include homelessness and under-housing; immigration and diversity; community-based research; critical positive youth development; social work; international social work.

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