UI Press | Edited by Nilda Flores-González, Anna Romina Guevarra, Maura Toro-Morn, and Grace Chang | Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age

Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age

Interdisciplinary perspectives on an underrepresented labor force

To date, most research on immigrant women and labor forces has focused on the participation of immigrant women in formal labor markets. In this study, contributors focus on informal economies such as health care, domestic work, street vending, and the garment industry, where displaced and undocumented women are more likely to work. Because such informal labor markets are unregulated, many of these workers face abusive working conditions that are not reported for fear of job loss or deportation. In examining the complex dynamics of how immigrant women navigate political and economic uncertainties, this collection highlights the important role of citizenship status in defining immigrant women's opportunities, wages, and labor conditions.

Contributors are Pallavi Banerjee, Grace Chang, Margaret M. Chin, Jennifer Jihye Chun, Héctor R. Cordero-Guzmán, Emir Estrada, Lucy T. Fisher, Nilda Flores-González, Ruth Gomberg-Munoz, Anna Romina Guevarra, Shobha Hamal Gurung, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, María de la Luz Ibarra, Miliann Kang, George Lipsitz, Lolita Andrada Lledo, Lorena Muńoz, Bandana Purkayastha, M. Victoria Quiroz-Becerra, Mary Romero, Young Shin, Michelle Téllez, and Maura I. Toro-Morn.

"These analytically rich and ethnographically vivid accounts of immigrant women's work will help scholars and activists understand these women's labor conditions and their efforts to gain empowerment and justice. A stimulating and thought-provoking contribution to labor studies, women's studies, and ethnic studies."--Mary Margaret Fonow, coauthor of Making Feminist Politics: Transnational Alliances between Women and Labor

Nilda Flores-González is an associate professor with a joint appointment in sociology and the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Anna Romina Guevarra is an associate professor of Asian American studies and affiliated faculty in gender & women's studies and sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Maura Toro-Morn is a professor of sociology at Illinois State University. Grace Chang is an associate professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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