WGS250H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 28: Blue-Collar Worker, Glass Ceiling, Community Organizing
25 Oct 2014
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Chapter 28: from hong kong to canada: immigration and the changing family lives of middle-class. Studies have found that women act and labored alongside males who were actively involved in political and community organizing. Work centered around adaptation" and adjustment" onus on the indiv immigrant to adjust. Author uses a feminist methodology to place women as subjects" of the study and take into account both structural processes and indivi negotiations. So author investigates how indiv chinese immigrant women as subjects account for their situation and how their stories are shaped by objective structures in the form of organizational and institutional processes both processes are interconnected. Overlap! employment opps, housework and childcare, relationships with husbands and social life. Interviews of 30 middle-class chinese immigrant women from hong kong: all of them were married with atleast one child. Institutional processes= processes/practices that embedded in: government, law, edu andprofessional systems.
