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Migration, immigration & emigration

The Social Organization of South Asian Immigrant Women's Mothering Work - Head Work

by Author(s): Ferzana Chaze

Description

This book examines the social organization of recent immigrant South Asian women’s mothering work. It explicates the processes that contribute to those belonging to this social group making changes to their mothering work after immigrating to Canada despite having reservations about doing so. The book draws its findings from interviews with 20 South Asian immigrant mothers who were raising school aged children in Canada and had been in the country for less than five years. Government policies, websites and newspaper reports also form important data sources for this study. Using institutional ethnography, the book shows the disjuncture between the mothering work of the South Asian immigrant woman and institutionally backed neoliberal discourses in Canada around mothering, schooling and immigrant employment. It highlights the manner in which the settlement experiences for South Asian immigrant women can become stressful and complicated by the changes that these women are required to make in line with these institutional discourses. The study explicates how the work of immigrant mother in the settlement process changes over time as she participates in social relations that require her to raise her children as autonomous responsible citizens who can participate in a neoliberal economy characterised by precarious work. The research that informs this book has implications for the social work profession, which is connected in many ways to the settlement experiences of immigrant women.

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Author Biography

Dr Ferzana Chaze is Professor in the Faculty of Applied Health and Community Studies at Sheridan College, Canada. She holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Toronto, Canada, and the University of Mumbai, India, and a PhD in Social Work from York University, Canada. Her teaching and research interests include a focus on immigrants and their settlement, diversity and inclusion, social policy, and research methods.

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