Introduction

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 3
5. PART ONE. Immigrant Women and Violence
6. 1. The Complicity of the State in the Intimate Abuse of Immigrant Women 41
7. 2. Violence in Immigrant Families in Halifax 70
8. PART TWO. Immigrant Women and Health
9. 3. Gender, Migration, and Health 98
10. 4. Policy (In)Action: Policy-Making, Health, and Migrant Women 137
11. 5. Review of Health and Policy Research on Older Immigrants 163
12. 6. Exploring Social Capital among Women in the Context of Migration: Engendering the Public Policy Debate 187
13. PART THREE. Immigrant Women and Equity
14. 7. Immigrant Women and Earnings Inequality in Canada 208
15. 8. Migrant Muslim Women’s Interests and the Case of ‘Shari’a Tribunals’ in Ontario 233
16. 9. Haitian-Canadians’ Experiences of Racism in Quebec: A Postcolonial Feminist Perspective 265
17. 10. Challenging Gendered and Ethno-Racial Assumptions in Organizing for Housing Rights 295
18. Conclusion 317
19. Contributors 323