AP/HREQ 3370 6.00
Migrant Women’s Experiences & Equity
This course examines the experiences of migrant women from a critical human rights perspective, exploring settlement patterns, employment opportunities, credentialing, and education. Patriarchal traditions and realigning gender roles are examined, along with issues of hybridity and resilience.
It analyses the theoretical foundations of the intersection of the social relations and processes of gender, class, racialization, ethnicization and legal status shape migrant women's lives in Canada. It begins by mining the history of women migrants to and in Canada and examines how diverse women migrants experienced the period of initial colonization and settlement of Indigenous territories and their roles in the formation of the Canadian settler colonial state; the development of a capitalist labour market and industrialization and; the latest period of capitalist globalization. By examining women migrants' lives in these time periods, the course attempts to uncover how immigration has been central to the shaping of the interconnected economic, political, and social spheres of life in Canada. It will also attend to the changing historical images of migrant women and how processes of gendering, racialization, class and the particular discourse of settler-nationalism have influenced such representations with the emphasis on changes made in the Canadian settler state's immigration and settler policies and how these changes have been experienced by diverse groups of women. It will investigate how changing immigration policies have shaped the experiences of work for those who are classified as 'Canadians' alongside those women who are recruited to Canada but excluded from citizenship status.
Course credit exclusion: Prior to Fall 2019 - AP/MIST 3370 6.00
Prerequisite: 24 credits