An analysis of interviews with representatives of global governance institutions and international nongovernmental organizations conducted between 2007 and 2010 in the Latin American and Caribbean region and at the headquarters of relevant international organizations in Geneva. Argues that because the discourse on migrant women's rights and their labor exploitation is framed predominantly in the context of trafficking, little headway is made in advancing migrant women's labor and social rights.
266 p., The premise of this research rests on the idea that race, class and gender are all central to the immigrants' experience and that assimilation into the dominant culture is influenced by the immigrants' national origin, the immigrants' gender and his or her family's socioeconomic status. employ the Children of Immigrants' Longitudinal Study to determine the assimilation patterns of second-generation immigrants from Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica and the West Indies to the United States.
