- Title
- Migrant Women Act
- Creator
- Bursian, Olga
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- Text; Book
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/31486
- Identifier
- vital:5942
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781863358859
- Abstract
- Migrant Women Act shows the creativity and ingenuity of migrant women in shaping their own destinies during resettlement. It also shows the vital role of public services in enabling these competencies to flower. Olga Bursian documents the stories of thirty migrant women from the former USSR, Vietnam, Lebanon, the Philippines and the Horn of Africa, by exploring their socialisation into non-Western understandings of the human being, of normal society and what is worth doing in life. The women speak about how they acted through displacement and resettlement overturning popular stereotypes about their cultures. The stories reveal their generosity, resilience and audacity in the face of multiple layers of unequal social relations and negative representations. The book includes a review of the role of public services in successful resettlement, even for the most resilient women. Open entitlement to these services for new citizens was the hallmark of multiculturalism prior to the reversals begun by the Howard Government in the mid 1990s. Olga Bursian uses wide ranging sources to back a rigorous policy and program analysis, pitched at professionals and decision makers. She has lived and worked across diverse cultures and was inspired to document the unbounded resilience of migrant women.
- Publisher
- Champaign, Illinois Common Ground
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 2002 Cultural Studies; 1605 Policy and Administration; Women immigrants; Social conditions; Social life and customs; Female/Women Foreign workers; Social work
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