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Journal articles on the topic "Caribbean immigrant women"

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Chavkin, Wendy, Carey Busner, and Margaret McLaughlin. "Reproductive Health: Caribbean Women in New York City, 1980–1984." International Migration Review 21, no. 3 (September 1987): 609–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/019791838702100309.

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People from the Caribbean represent one of the largest immigrant groups in New York City. This study focuses on the reproductive health of first generation Caribbean immigrants. Birth and death certificate data were used to generate descriptive profiles of risk-factor prevalence and reproductive outcomes to Caribbean and comparison populations.
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Fruchter, R. G., J. C. Remy, W. S. Burnett, and J. G. Boyce. "Cervical cancer in immigrant Caribbean women." American Journal of Public Health 76, no. 7 (July 1986): 797–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/ajph.76.7.797.

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Esnard, Talia Randa. "Breaching the walls of academe: the case of five Afro-Caribbean immigrant women within United States institutions of higher education." Multidisciplinary Journal of Gender Studies 8, no. 3 (October 25, 2019): 206. http://dx.doi.org/10.17583/generos.2019.4726.

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While a growing tendency among researchers has been for the examination of diverse forms of discrimination against Afro-Caribbean immigrants within the United States (US), the types of ambiguities that these create for framing the personal and professional identities of Afro-Caribbean women academics who operate within that space remain relatively absent. The literature is also devoid of substantive explorations that delve into the ways and extent to which the cultural scripts of Afro-Caribbean women both constrain and enable their professional success in academe. The call therefore is for critical examinations that deepen, while extending existing examinations of the lived realities for Afro-Caribbean immigrants within the US, and, the specific trepidations that they both confront and overcome in the quest for academic success while in their host societies. Using intersectionality as the overarching framework for this work, we demonstrate, through the use of narrative inquiry, the extent to which cultural constructions of difference nuance the social axes of power, the politics of space and identity, and professional outcomes of Afro-Caribbean immigrant women who operate within a given context. These are captured within our interrogation of the structures of power that they confront and their use of culture to fight against and to break through institutional politics.
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Fruchter, R. G., K. Nayeri, J. C. Remy, C. Wright, J. G. Feldman, J. G. Boyce, and W. S. Burnett. "Cervix and breast cancer incidence in immigrant Caribbean women." American Journal of Public Health 80, no. 6 (June 1990): 722–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/ajph.80.6.722.

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Cerbon, Danielle, Matthew Schlumbrecht, Camille Ragin, Priscila Barreto Coelho, Judith Hurley, and Sophia George. "Comparing breast cancer characteristics and outcomes between black U.S.-born patients and black immigrant patients from individual Caribbean islands." Journal of Clinical Oncology 38, no. 15_suppl (May 20, 2020): e13633-e13633. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2020.38.15_suppl.e13633.

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e13633 Background: Caribbean-born black immigrants (CBI) represent 57% of all black immigrants in the US; they come mainly from Haiti, Jamaica, Dominican Republic (DR), and Cuba. Breast cancer (BC) is the leading cause of cancer deaths in women living in the Caribbean, however, our previous retrospective cohort of 1131 black women with BC shows that CBI have a better overall survival compared with US-born black (USB). The Caribbean has a majority of African ancestry; nonetheless, different ancestral populations differ in genetic composition, making the Caribbean a distinct population with several health disparities within it. Therefore, we stratified our study by each Caribbean country compared to USB patients with the objective of further studying the difference in BC outcomes between USB patients and CBI. Methods: We identified BC patients through a Safety Net and Private Hospital Tumor Registries. We selected the most populace sites: Haiti, Jamaica, Bahamas, Cuba and DR; and used data from 1,082 patients to estimate hazard rations (HRs) using Cox proportional hazards regression and Kaplan Meier analysis for overall survival; Chi Squared and independent sample t-test to verify associations in categorical variables. Results: The study has 250 Haitian, 89 Jamaican, 43 Bahamian, 38 Dominican, 38 Cuban and 624 USB women. Haitians underwent less surgery (HB 61.2% vs USB 72.9%; P = 0.001) and had less triple negative BC (18% vs USB 27.8%; P = 0.006). Bahamians were the youngest at diagnosis (50.5 years vs. USB 57.6 P < 0.001) and presented at more advanced stages (stage 3/4, 54.3% vs USB 35.3%; P = 0.02). Jamaicans and DR underwent more radiation therapy (43.8%, P = 0.002 and 44.7%, P = 0.028 vs. USB 28%). Jamaican women had a better overall survival compared to USB patients (median of 154.93 months, 95% CI: 114.1-195.5 vs 98.63 months, 95% CI: 76.4-120.8; Log-Rank Mantel Cox P = 0.034). Favorable factors for survival were: radiation therapy in Haitian and USB (aHR = 0.45, 95% 0.27-0.77; P = 0.004); and surgery in USB (aHR = 0.26 (0.19-0.36), p < 0.001), Bahamians (aHR = 0.05 (0.01-0.47), p = 0.008) and Jamaicans (aHR = 0.08 (0.03-0.24), p < 0.001). Conclusions: This study underlines the vast heterogeneity in the Caribbean population and demonstrates that Jamaican immigrants with BC have a higher overall survival compared to USB patients, proposing that genetic and other cancer related factors inherent to country of origin impact survival within Caribbean immigrants and highlighting the need for further studies in this immigrant sub-group.
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Muruthi, Bertranna A., J. Maria Bermudez, Jessica L. Chou, Carolyn M. Shivers, Jerry Gale, and Denise Lewis. "Mother–Adult Daughter Questionnaire: Psychometric Evaluation Across First- and Second-Generation Black Immigrant Women." Family Journal 28, no. 2 (February 17, 2020): 168–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1066480720906123.

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This study was conducted to determine the generalizability of the Mother–Adult Daughter Questionnaire (MAD) for first- and second-generation Afro-Caribbean women. The measure was created specifically to explore adult daughters’ reports of their relationship with their mothers in order to capture the values of connectedness, trust in hierarchy, and interdependence in the mother–daughter relationship. We test this cross-generational applicability to (1) determine the generalizability of the measure for first- and second-generation women and (2) assess whether the means of the subscales differ across first- and second-generation women. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to test the factor structure of the MAD with this population. The sample ( N = 285) was comprised of reports from 129 adult daughters born in the United States and 156 born in the Caribbean. CFAs indicated that the scoring algorithm for the subscales fit these data well. Results indicated that the MAD subscales (Connectedness, Trust in Hierarchy, and Interdependence) were applicable and may operate similarly across first- and second-generation Afro-Caribbean women.
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Green, Eric H., Karen M. Freund, Michael A. Posner, and Michele M. David. "Pap Smear Rates among Haitian Immigrant Women in Eastern Massachusetts." Public Health Reports 120, no. 2 (March 2005): 133–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003335490512000206.

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Objective. Given limited prior evidence of high rates of cervical cancer in Haitian immigrant women in the U.S., this study was designed to examine self-reported Pap smear screening rates for Haitian immigrant women and compare them to rates for women of other ethnicities. Methods. Multi-ethnic women at least 40 years of age living in neighborhoods with large Haitian immigrant populations in eastern Massachusetts were surveyed in 2000–2002. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to examine the effect of demographic and health care characteristics on Pap smear rates. Results. Overall, 81% (95% confidence interval 79%, 84%) of women in the study sample reported having had a Pap smear within three years. In unadjusted analyses, Pap smear rates differed by ethnicity ( p=0.003), with women identified as Haitian having a lower crude Pap smear rate (78%) than women identified as African American (87%), English-speaking Caribbean (88%), or Latina (92%). Women identified as Haitian had a higher rate than women identified as non-Hispanic white (74%). Adjustment for differences in demographic factors known to predict Pap smear acquisition (age, marital status, education level, and household income) only partially accounted for the observed difference in Pap smear rates. However, adjustment for these variables as well as those related to health care access (single site for primary care, health insurance status, and physician gender) eliminated the ethnic difference in Pap smear rates. Conclusions. The lower crude Pap smear rate for Haitian immigrants relative to other women of color was in part due to differences in ( 1) utilization of a single source for primary care, ( 2) health insurance, and ( 3) care provided by female physicians. Public health programs, such as the cancer prevention programs currently utilized in eastern Massachusetts, may influence these factors. Thus, the relatively high Pap rate among women in this study may reflect the success of these programs. Public health and elected officials will need to consider closely how implementing or withdrawing these programs may impact immigrant and minority communities.
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Stephens, Kat J. "Just a Unicorn." JCSCORE 6, no. 1 (July 15, 2020): 211–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.15763/issn.2642-2387.2020.6.1.211-216.

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Kat J. Stephens is a higher education Ph.D. student at University of Massachusetts Amherst. She’s earned a Master of Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, in Higher & Postsecondary Education. Her larger research interests are social justice & identity development. As an Afro-Guyanese immigrant, her research interests reflects: Caribbean students, Afro-Caribbean racial identity formation, transnationalism, Black women students with ADHD & Autism, & gifted community college & transfer students. Her work here is inspired by her life and those of other Black women & girls in educational spaces. This poem serves to highlight her frustrations, while encouraging Black women to take space in disability centered environments, and universities to adequately support such individuals.
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Schlumbrecht, Matthew, Marilyn Huang, Judith Hurley, and Sophia George. "Endometrial cancer outcomes among non-Hispanic US born and Caribbean born black women." International Journal of Gynecologic Cancer 29, no. 5 (May 3, 2019): 897–903. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ijgc-2019-000347.

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PurposeData on endometrial cancer outcomes among immigrant women in the USA are lacking. The objective was to determine the effect of Caribbean nativity on outcomes in black women with endometrial cancer compared with women born in the USA, with attention paid to the effects of tumor grade, sociodemographic factors, and treatment approaches.MethodsA review of the institutional cancer registry was performed to identify black, non-Hispanic women with known nativity and treated for endometrial cancer between 2001 and 2017. Sociodemographic, treatment, and outcomes data were collected. Analyses were done using the χ2 test, Cox proportional hazards models, and the Kaplan–Meier method, with significance set at P<0.05.Results195 women were included in the analysis. High grade histologies were present in a large proportion of both US born (64.5%) and Caribbean born (72.2%) patients. Compared with US born women, those of Caribbean nativity were more likely to be non-smokers (P=0.01) and be uninsured (P=0.03). Caribbean born women had more cases of stage III disease (27.8% versus 12.5%, P<0.01), while carcinosarcoma was more common in US born black women (23.6% versus 10.6%, P=0.05). Caribbean nativity trended towards improvement in overall survival (hazard ratio (HR) 0.65 (0.40–1.07)). Radiation (HR 0.53 (0.29–1.00)) was associated with improved survival while advanced stage (HR 3.81 (2.20–6.57)) and high grade histology (HR 2.34 (1.17–4.72)) were predictive of worse survival.ConclusionsThe prevalence of high grade endometrial cancer histologies among black women of Caribbean nativity is higher than previously reported. Caribbean nativity may be associated with improved overall survival although additional study is warranted.
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Alfred, Mary V. "Sociocultural Contexts and Learning: Anglophone Caribbean Immigrant Women in U.S. Postsecondary Education." Adult Education Quarterly 53, no. 4 (August 2003): 242–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0741713603254028.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Caribbean immigrant women"

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Lucknauth, Christeena. "Racialized Immigrant Women Responding to Intimate Partner Abuse." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30663.

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This exploratory study investigates how racialized immigrant women experience and respond to intimate partner abuse (IPA). The American and European models of intersectionality theory are used to highlight structural constraints and agentic responses as experienced and enacted by racialized immigrant women. Eight women described their experiences through semi-structured interviews, revealing an array of both defensive and pro-active types of strategies aimed at short- and long-term outcomes. Responses included aversion, negative reinforcement or coping strategies like prayer or self-coaching, and accordingly varied by the constraints under which the women lived as newcomers to Canada. Policy recommendations promote acknowledgement of women’s decision-making abilities and provide a model in which women can choose from a selection of options in how to respond, rather than strictly interventionist models. Study results can help to challenge stereotypes of abused women as passive victims, and empower the image of immigrant women as active knowers of their circumstances.
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Standifer, Maisha. "The Blurred Lines of HPV and Cervical Cancer Knowledge: Exploring the Social and Cultural Factors of Identity, Gender, and Sexuality in Caribbean Immigrant Women." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6397.

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This dissertation explores how the sociocultural experiences of migration and acquisition of health knowledge influence the beliefs and behaviors related to human papillomavirus (HPV) risks and cervical cancer prevention among women who have emigrated from English-speaking Caribbean nations and now live in the Tampa Bay metropolitan area. Genital human papillomavirus is very common, and cervical cancer is the most common HPV-associated cancer. Additionally, all cervical cancers are caused by the HPV infection. More women of color, including Black and Hispanic women, are diagnosed with cervical cancer and at a later stage of the disease than women of other races or ethnicities. Black women have lower levels of knowledge and awareness of HPV and related preventive measures compared to Whites. The incidence of cervical cancer is higher among African American/Black women and Latina women than among White women. Globally, Caribbean countries have some of the highest incidence and mortality rates of cervical cancer. It is unclear how knowledge, perceptions and behaviors surrounding HPV risks and cervical cancer influence prevention practices among immigrant women from English-speaking Caribbean countries residing in the United States. Existing literature highlights factors which influence cervical cancer prevention behaviors and HPV knowledge among immigrants in the United States, including educational barriers, HPV tests and vaccine costs, duration of time within the United States, in addition to the beliefs, myths and stigma surrounding cervical cancer originating in the birth country. But there is a dearth of information on immigrant women from the Caribbean. Ethnographic methods were employed in this study, including participant observation, key-informant interviewing, focus groups, and semi-structured in-depth interviewing to assess attitudes, available knowledge, culturally specific perceptions, and behavioral practices of the study participants. This dissertation develops a modified approach in the Critical Medical Anthropology (CMA) genre that links political economy with an interpretive approach. It also utilizes the theoretical approaches of transnationalism and embodiment to analyze the phenomena under consideration. Some key outcomes of this research are as follows: Many women were very aware of HPV, and most women were familiar with cervical cancer. However, the majority of women were not confident regarding how HPV and cervical cancer were connected. They did not know how a virus causes a chronic disease. Even with some of the study participants having the HPV vaccine, they were still not aware of the link between the two. This lead the researcher to inquire what HPV or a sexually transmitted disease meant to the women, resulting in a mixture of responses ranging from never thinking about HPV or acquiring an infection to placing blame on being “loose” or “promiscuous” as a woman. Their narratives provided insights into how their childhood and familial experiences as young Caribbean women contributed to how they act upon knowledge about being sick, having an infection, or living a healthy lifestyle since migrating to the United States. This research contributes to works applying anthropological perspectives and ethnographic methodology to narrow the gap in available literature relevant to migration, Black Caribbean immigrant health and cancer health disparities.
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Joseph, Jany P. W. "Writing Caribbean migration." Thesis, University of Kent, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.594231.

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Collins, Enid M. "Career mobility among immigrant registered nurses in Canada: Experiences of Caribbean women." 2004. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=80178&T=F.

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Chambers, Melany. "Exploring the Obesity-Related Lifestyle Attitudes and Behaviors of African-American Women and Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Women in Metro Atlanta, Georgia." 2016. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/communication_diss/72.

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Background. Obesity has been associated with a number of negative health consequences (e.g., hypertension/heart disease, type-2 diabetes, osteoarthritis, and respiratory illnesses). Despite health communication campaigns to reduce overweight/obesity by encouraging lifestyle changes (e.g., eating healthier foods and exercising), the rates of overweight and obesity levels have continued to rise. Studies indicate that the rate of overweight and obesity in the U.S. is highest among Blacks. Messages targeted toward “Blacks” (African-Americans) in the United States treat this segment of the population as a homogenous group and fail to account for within-group cultural differences. Cultural values and beliefs related to food, physical activity, and ideal body size may contribute to overweight and obesity. Objective. This study was designed to gain a deeper understanding of the similarities and differences between African-American and Afro-Caribbean immigrant women living in the Metro Atlanta, Georgia, in terms of the role that culture and social environments play in forming obesity-related—food, physical activity, and body image—attitudes, values, and behaviors. Method. A social cognitive theory (SCT) framework informed the design of semi-structured interview guides. Study participants were comprised of 13 African-American women and 12 Afro-Caribbean women who recently immigrated to the United States from English-speaking countries. All participants were living in Atlanta, Georgia at the time of the study. They were recruited through convenience and snowball sampling and interviewed between October 5 and December 26, 2014. Data from audio-recorded in-depth interviews were transcribed and analyzed using textual analysis software package NVivo9. Results. African-American and Afro-Caribbean participants were similar in terms of some food-, physical activity- and body-image related attitudes and behaviors. Health-related concerns and matrilineal influence affected the food-related behaviors of both groups of participants. Physical activity and body image-related attitudes and behaviors of women in both groups were affected by the norms of their childhood and current social environments. Although a healthy physical activity lifestyle was important to women in both groups, not all women were consistently physically active. The study also revealed some differences between African-American and Afro-Caribbean participants. In general, the African-American women described the food-related norms of their childhood environments in negative terms and were more likely to have changed their food-related behaviors for health reasons. The Afro-Caribbean women described their childhood food-related norms in positive terms, and thus, strove to maintain healthy behaviors from their childhood. The norms of the current social environments of African-Americans, but the childhood social environments of Afro-Caribbean participants, influenced them more toward healthier food-, physical activity- and body image-related attitudes and behaviors. In terms of body ideals, Afro-Caribbean women typically identified a smaller “ideal body size” than African-American women. African-Americans from the South, or those with parents from the South tended to choose larger figures than women from the North. Conclusion. Consistent with other SCT studies, this study found attitudes and behaviors that were consistent with those modeled within the participants’ social environments. There are more cultural differences than similarities between African-American and Afro-Caribbean women. The similarities and differences revealed in this study have implications for the design of culturally relevant obesity-related messages.
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Books on the topic "Caribbean immigrant women"

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In praise of new travelers: Reading Caribbean migrant women writers. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2001.

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United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Women and Development Unit, ed. In search of work: International migration of women in Latin America and the Caribbean : selected bibliography. Santiago de Chile: Naciones Unidas, 2004.

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Resisting discrimination: Women from Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean and the women's movement in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996.

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Boundaries. New York: Akashic Books, 2011.

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Julia Alvarez: Writing a new place on the map. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.

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Collins, Enid M. Career mobility among immigrant registered nurses in Canada: Experiences of Caribbean women. 2004.

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Gabaccia, Donna R. Emancipation and Exploitation in Immigrant Women’s Lives. Edited by Ronald H. Bayor. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766031.013.007.

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Because the United States celebrates itself as a beacon of liberty, emancipation is one of the most common themes in the history of immigrant women and the exploitation of women, as workers or as wives, tends to be traced to the patriarchy of foreign communities or immigrant men rather than to unequal American gender relations. At least since the colonial era, opportunities for immigrant women from Europe to expand their own sense of personal autonomy and agency have surpassed opportunities for immigrant women from Asia, Latin America, Africa, or the Caribbean. Gender inequality for immigrant women is less the result of confrontations between differing immigrant and American forms of patriarchy and more the product of gendered forms of American racism.
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Donahue, Jennifer. Taking Flight. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496828637.001.0001.

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Caribbean women have long utilized the medium of fiction to break the pervasive silence surrounding abuse and exploitation. Contemporary works by authors such as Tiphanie Yanique and Nicole Dennis-Benn illustrate the deep-rooted consequences of trauma based on gender, sexuality, and race, and trace the steps that women take to find safer ground from oppression. Taking Flight takes a closer look at the immigrant experience in contemporary Caribbean women’s writing and considers the effects of restrictive social mores. In the texts examined in Taking Flight, culturally sanctioned violence impacts the ability of female characters to be at home in their bodies or in the spaces they inhabit. The works draw attention to the historic racialization and sexualization of Black women’s bodies and continue the legacy of narrating Black women’s long-standing contestation of systems of oppression. Arguing that there is a clear link between trauma, shame, and migration, with trauma serving as a precursor to the protagonists’ emigration, the work focuses on how female bodies are policed, how moral, racial, and sexual codes are linked, and how the enforcement of social norms can function as a form of trauma. Taking Flight positions flight as a powerful counter to disempowerment and considers how flight, whether through dissociation or migration, operates as a form of resistance.
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García Peña, Lorgia. Translating Blackness. Duke University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478023289.

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In Translating Blackness Lorgia García Peña considers Black Latinidad in a global perspective in order to chart colonialism as an ongoing sociopolitical force. Drawing from archives and cultural productions from the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe, García Peña argues that Black Latinidad is a social, cultural, and political formation—rather than solely a site of identity—through which we can understand both oppression and resistance. She takes up the intellectual and political genealogy of Black Latinidad in the works of Frederick Douglass, Gregorio Luperón, and Arthur Schomburg. She also considers the lives of Black Latina women living in the diaspora, such as Black Dominicana guerrillas who migrated throughout the diaspora after the 1965 civil war and Black immigrant and second-generation women like Mercedes Frías and Milagros Guzmán organizing in Italy with other oppressed communities. In demonstrating that analyses of Black Latinidad must include Latinx people and cultures throughout the diaspora, García Peña shows how the vaivén—or, coming and going—at the heart of migrant life reveals that the nation is not a sufficient rubric from which to understand human lived experiences.
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Borders of Visibility: Haitian Migrant Women and the Dominican Nation-State. University Alabama Press, 2017.

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Book chapters on the topic "Caribbean immigrant women"

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Dixon, Sandra. "The Relevance of Spirituality to Cultural Identity Reconstruction for African-Caribbean Immigrant Women." In International and Cultural Psychology, 249–70. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00090-5_11.

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Maddox, Tyesha. "“Women Were Always There…”: Caribbean Immigrant Women, Mutual Aid Societies, and Benevolent Associations in the Early Twentieth Century." In Palgrave Studies in Economic History, 485–516. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99554-6_15.

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"Developing a Feminist Analysis of Citizenship of Caribbean Immigrant Women in Canada: Key Dimensions and Conceptual Challenges." In Women, Migration and Citizenship, 51–74. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315546575-9.

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Donahue, Jennifer. "Introduction." In Taking Flight, 3–12. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496828637.003.0001.

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Taking Flight takes a closer look at the immigrant experience in contemporary Caribbean women’s writing and considers the effects of restrictive social mores. This introduction outlines aims of the book. One of these aims is to better understand the complex relationship between social norms and trauma. This approach is based on a close reading of literary representations of Caribbean women with particular attention to how female bodies are policed, how moral, racial, and sexual codes are linked, and how the enforcement of social norms can function as a form of trauma. The argument defines trauma as a “powerful indicator of oppressive cultural institutions and practices” and hinges on the idea that body and sexual politics operate as sources of trauma in the works under study (Vickroy 4). Taking Flight examines a selection of Caribbean women’s writing published since 1984. This introduction offers an overview of how the study is ordered. The chapters therein explore how diverse forms of trauma are related to the characters’ responses to societal pressures and focus on trauma stemming from the social control of sexuality, the navigation of racial identity, and the distress that follows migration, disease, and the violation of gender and sexual norms.
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Ali, Alisha. "Exploring the Immigrant Experience through Self-Silencing Theory and the Full-Frame Approach: The Case of Caribbean Immigrant Women in Canada and the United States." In Silencing the Self Across Cultures, 227–40. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195398090.003.0011.

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Burke, Mary M. "Introduction." In Race, Politics, and Irish America, 1–10. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192859730.003.0001.

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Abstract Figures from the Scots-Irish Andrew Jackson to the Caribbean-Irish Rihanna, as well as literature, film, caricature, and beauty discourse, convey how the Irish racially transformed multiple times: in the slave-holding Caribbean, on America’s frontiers and antebellum plantations, and along its eastern seaboard. This cultural history of race and centuries of Irishness in the Americas examines the forcibly transported Irish, the eighteenth-century Presbyterian Ulster Scots, and post-1845 Famine immigrants. Their racial transformations are indicated by the designations they acquired in the Americas: ‘Redlegs,’ ‘Scots-Irish,’ and ‘black Irish.’ In literature by Fitzgerald, O’Neill, Mitchell, Glasgow, and Yerby (an African-American author of Scots-Irish heritage), the Irish are both colluders and victims within America’s racial structure. Depictions range from Irish encounters with Native and African Americans to competition within America’s immigrant hierarchy between ‘Saxon’ Scots-Irish and ‘Celtic’ Irish Catholic. Irish-connected presidents feature, but attention to queer and multiracial authors, public women, beauty professionals, and performers complicates the ‘Irish whitening’ narrative. Thus, ‘Irish Princess’ Grace Kelly’s globally-broadcast ascent to royalty paves the way for ‘America’s royals,’ the Kennedys. The presidencies of the Scots-Irish Jackson and Catholic-Irish Kennedy signalled their respective cohorts’ assimilation. Since Gothic literature particularly expresses the complicity that attaining power (‘whiteness’) entails, subgenres named ‘Scots-Irish Gothic’ and ‘Kennedy Gothic’ are identified: in Gothic by Brown, Poe, James, Faulkner, and Welty, the violence of the colonial Irish motherland is visited upon marginalized Americans, including, sometimes, other Irish groupings. History is Gothic in Irish-American narrative because the undead Irish past replays within America’s contexts of race.
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Scott, Beverley-Ann. "Afro-Caribbean Immigrants in STEM Careers." In Women's Influence on Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity in STEM Fields, 143–68. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8870-2.ch006.

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Afro-Caribbean immigrants have made a significant contribution to the STEM careers in the United States over the last 70 years. Their contributions have been mostly unrecognized, and they have had extraordinary challenges to overcome, as perceptions of people of color in these professions and their ability to competently excel has been constantly under scrutiny. This chapter examines the experiences of an Afro-Caribbean woman who came to the United States as a Mathematics teacher in 2002. Her story describes the racial prejudice she encountered while teaching Mathematics in two North Carolina high schools. It highlights some of the deep-rooted racial biases that exist toward people of color in the STEM professions, not only by non-Africans but also by African Americans themselves. It also reflects on the challenges that changing those perceptions will entail and the link those biases have to slavery and segregation in the United States.
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Lespinasse, Patricia G. "Jazz and the Caribbean." In The Drum Is a Wild Woman, 89–109. University Press of Mississippi, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496836038.003.0006.

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This chapter explores resistance in the Caribbean American jazz narrative. The chapter discusses how the jazz ethos is depicted as the quintessential marker of freedom and agency for immigrants attempting to assimilate into American culture in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory. It begins with an analysis of the presence of jazz through the character portrayal of Joseph in order to demonstrate how jazz music is prevalent throughout the text and is used as the bridge that connects the various diasporic identities in the novel. It then explores how the Haitian oral tradition of Andaki, coded language, is akin to the African American tradition of cry and response, both exhibiting that through oral traditions a culture may resist the dominant linguistic ideologies and subjects can thereby gain power. It also discusses the Andaki dialect and compares it to the unspoken language of Vodou by interrogating the presence of Erzulie and how Erzulie is constructed as the wild woman archetype. It also explores the role of intimate violence in the novel as one that echoes the trope of incestuous rape found in African American texts and demonstrates how Danticat complicates the incest taboo by figuring women as the main victimizers of the female body.
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Parreñas Shimizu, Celine. "(Rich) White Women, (Poor) Brown Men, and Sexual Settings." In The Proximity of Other Skins, 42–86. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190865856.003.0002.

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This chapter addresses recent representations of Western white women (with money) from the United States, Canada, France, and the United Kingdom and their relationships with African and Asian men (without money) against several backdrops: sex tourism in the Caribbean, the low-wage labor market for undocumented immigrants in the United States, and the US fertility industry. Interrogating the interlocking relationship between political and libidinal economies, the chapter explores how these films frame differing freedoms and choices across gender, race, and class in scenes of sexual intimacy facilitated by a monetary transaction. In the process, it formulates the term “sexual setting” to identify how social, historical, and other contexts never subside but inform the erotics and pleasures of intimate bodily entanglements in the movies. In illustrating how the structural inequality of race, socioeconomics, and globalization infuse sexual scenes, the chapter shows how to assess the ethics of sexual entanglements.
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"Health, Poverty and Service Use Among Older West Indian Women in Greater Hartford." In The Health and Well-Being of Caribbean Immigrants in the United States, 23–40. Routledge, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203047439-2.

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Conference papers on the topic "Caribbean immigrant women"

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Cerbon, Danielle A., Matthew Schlumbrecht, Camille Ragin, Priscila Barreto-Coelho, Judith Hurley, and Sophia HL George. "Abstract B098: Intra-Caribbean Island differences drive breast cancer outcomes in US Caribbean-immigrant women compared to US-born Black women." In Abstracts: Twelfth AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved; September 20-23, 2019; San Francisco, CA. American Association for Cancer Research, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1538-7755.disp19-b098.

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