Newly arrived from Cuba, Angelica, Dora, Marina, and Damaris attempted to negotiate new surroundings and immigrant identities, building a sense of home for themselves and their families. Data from qualitative interviews, classroom observations, and focus group conversations revealed hopes that by acquiring English language skills, they would improve their quality of life in their new country. Struggles included personal factors situated in their pasts in Cuba and their new surrounds in the Miami Cuban exile enclave, contexts that were further complicated by uncertain expectations of new lives in Miami and the overwhelming task of learning a new language at a local adult education center.
Looks at Barbados's experience of abortion law reform undertaken in the 1980s. The movement was led by then Cabinet Minister and lawyer Billie Miller. Documents the nuances, important moments, key strategies and major players in the reform movement, and highlights the critical role that Miller played in getting the Medical Termination Act passed in 1983. Background information on the situation of Barbadian women and the nature of parliamentary governance at that time is also addressed in order to give context to the politics surrounding the issue.
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388 p, Includes Richard S. Dunn's "Sugar production and slave women in Jamaica"; -- David P. Geggus' "Sugar and coffee cultivation in Saint Domingue and the shaping of the slave labor force"; David Barry Gaspar's "Sugar cultivation and slave life in Antigua before 1800"; Michel-Rolph Trouillot's "Coffee planters and coffee slaves in the Antilles: the impact of a secondary crop"; Woodville K. Marshall's "Provision ground and plantation labor in four windward islands: competition for resources during slavery"; and Dale Tomich's "Une petite guinée: provision ground and plantation in Martinique, 1830-1848"
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195 p, "Over one-third of households in Jamaica are headed by women in the permanent absence of partners. Within the context of the Jamaican social and economic conditions, this study examines the familial experiences of poor women as mothers and providers in female-headed households." (Author)
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
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323 p., Despite sustained economic growth at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, Latin America and the Caribbean still faces high inequality and weak indicators of well-being among certain population groups. Women, people of African ancestry, and indigenous peoples are often at the bottom of the income distribution. The share of female-headed households rose in the past 20 years. By the beginning of the 1990s, women headed 1.2 percent of complete households (households in which both husband and wife are present) and 79.8 percent of single- head households. This book presents a regional overview of gender and ethnic disparities in labor earnings during this last turn of the century. Latin America and the Caribbean provide a rich environment for studying social inequality, because historical inequalities along gender and ethnic lines persist, despite positive indicators of economic development.
