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Objectif Cette recherche examine la manière dont les mères latines sans papiers négocient le conflit travail-famille dans un contexte de politiques d’immigration restrictives. Arrière-plan Aux États-Unis, les femmes continuent de lutter contre les tensions entre travail et famille, et les femmes pauvres sont confrontées à des contraintes particulières. Les immigrées latinos se sont de plus en plus installées et ont fondé des familles aux États-Unis, et ont rejoint le marché du travail dans des emplois à bas salaires. Contrairement aux femmes nées aux États-Unis, ces femmes doivent faire face à des politiques d’immigration restrictives, ce qui suggère de nouveaux domaines de compréhension des inégalités intersectionnelles qui façonnent le conflit travail-famille. Méthode Les résultats sont basés sur des entretiens approfondis menés auprès de 45 mères immigrantes latinos en Caroline du Nord qui avaient une expérience du marché du travail rémunéré. Les sujets d'entretien comprenaient la famille, le travail et la migration tout au long de la vie des femmes. Résultats Les contextes politiques spécifiques au lieu, les conditions de travail, les attentes patriarcales et le manque d'accès aux réseaux de soins remettent en question la capacité des immigrantes latines à remplir le double rôle de mère qu'elles occupent à la fois en tant que pourvoyeuses de famille et en tant que soignantes et nourricières de leurs enfants. Conclusion Les attentes sociales liées à la maternité ajoutent une dimension de précarité au statut vulnérable des femmes en tant que travailleuses sans papiers et démontrent l’impact genré des politiques d’immigration. Conséquences Les politiques restrictives rendent de plus en plus difficile pour les femmes sans papiers d’obtenir ou de changer d’emploi sur le marché du travail à bas salaires. Les résultats soulignent l’importance de prendre en compte le statut d’immigrant dans les études sur les conflits travail-famille, en particulier à l’heure où les politiques ciblant les immigrés s’intensifient.
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A landmark work when it appeared in 1976, America's Working Women helped form the field of women's studies and transform labor history. Now the authors have enlarged the dimensions of this important anthology; more than half the selections and all the introductory material are new. Spanning the years from 1600 to the present, selections from diaries, popular magazines, historical works, oral histories, letters, songs, poetry, and fiction show women's creativity in supporting themselves, their families, and organizations or associations. Slave women recall their field work, family work, and sabotage. We see Indian women farming, and we also see the white culture coercing Indian women to give up farming. We see women in industry playing a central part in the union movement while facing the particular hazards of women's jobs and working conditions. New selections show the historical origins of today's important issues: sexual harassment, equal pay, "sex work," work in the underground economy, work in the home, and shift work. With an expanded focus on women from all racial and ethnic backgrounds and regions, America's Working Women grounds us in the battles women have fought and the ones they are in the process of winning.
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In Joy and in Sorrow brings together some of the finest historians of the South in a sweeping exploration of the meaning of the family in this troubled region. In their vast canvas of the Victorian South, the authors explore the private lives of Senators, wealthy planters, and the belles of high society, along with the humblest slaves and sharecroppers, both white and black. Stretching from the height of the antebellum South's pride and power through the chaos of the Civil War and Reconstruction to the end of the century, these essays uncover hidden worlds of the Southern family, worlds of love and duty--and of incest, miscegenation, and insanity. Featuring an introduction by C. Vann Woodward, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Mary Chesnut's Civil War, and a foreword by Anne Firor Scott, author of The Southern Lady, this work presents an outstanding array of historians: Eugene Genovese, Catherine Clinton, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Carol Bleser, Drew Faust, James Roark, Michael Johnson, Brenda Stevenson, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Jacqueline Jones, Peter Bardaglio, and more. They probe the many facets of Southern domestic life, from the impact of the Civil War on a prominent Southern marriage to the struggles of postwar sharecropper families. One author turns the pages of nineteenth century cookbooks, exploring what they tell us about home life, housekeeping, and entertaining without slaves after the Civil War. Other essays portray the relationship between a Victorian father and his devoted son, as well as the private writings of a long-suffering Southern wife. In Joy and in Sorrow offers a fascinating look into the tangled reality of Southern life before, during, and after the Civil War. With this collection of essays, editor Carol Bleser provides a powerful new way of understanding this most self-consciously distinct region. In Joy and in Sorrow will appeal to everyone interested in marriage and the family, the problems of gender and slavery, as well as in the history of the South, old and new.
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Responding to the need for a comprehensive source of information regarding the separation of American Indian children from their families, this book presents essays which: examine the Indian child-welfare crisis in contemporary, legal, and historical perspectives; document the human cost of the crisis to Indian parents, children, and communities; and report on innovative programs designed and implemented by the Indian tribes themselves. Specifically, this book includes the following sections and essay titles: (1) Contemporary Overviews ("The Destruction of American Indian Families" and "The Role of the Federal Government: A Congressional View"); (2) Historical Perspectives ("The Effects of Boarding Schools on Indian Family Life: 1928" and "'Kid Catching' on the Navajo Reservation: 1920"); (3) The Human Cost ("'The Drunken Indian': Myths and Realities"; "The Wasted Strengths of Indian Families", "The Human Cost of Removing Indian Children from Their Families", "Child-Welfare Services to Indian People in the Albuquerque Area", "Indian Child Welfare in Oregon", "The Ravage of Indian Families in Crisis", "The Question of Best Interest", and "The Placement of American Indian Children--The Need for Change"); (4) A Legal Perspective ("Parent and Child Relationships in Law and in Navajo Custom"); (5) Tribal Actions ("Indian Children and Tribal Group Homes: New Interpretations of the Whipper Man" and "Tribal Resolutions"). (JC)