SA 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Occupational Segregation, Visible Minority, European Canadian

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 345
• Professor: Parin Dossa

Document Summary

Sa345 unit 7: immigrant women workers in the settlement sector lee. Gov"t dling of social welfare services to community-based immigrant settlement agencies has created a second-tier sector of the canadian welfare system. Neo-liberal state restructuring has disproportionately and negatively affected women workers in these community-based orgs. State attempts to resolve contradictions from increased immigration while reducing welfare and immigrant settlement services thru . Stereotypes about minority women and gendered ideas about care work help justify the inequality of immigrant women workers. Highlights immigrant women"s contributions to society as productive workers. Immigrant women make up 80% of employees. Legal category of citizenship that has become accepted into everyday language (as though it was a. Refers to social processes that undervalue activities/services/goods as . Concept that shifts away from viewing people as belonging to a natural race. Refers to the social construction of race. Highlights the way people are classified as different. Use of diff phenotypical, cultural, and behavioural markers as indicators.