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Title: Organizations Working with Latina Immigrants: Resources and Strategies for Change

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Publication Year: 2011

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Abstract: This report presents findings from a two-year study exploring how nonprofit organizations and religious congregations strive to advance the rights, economic standing, and overall well-being of low-income Latina immigrants in Atlanta, GA; Phoenix, AZ; and Northern Virginia, a region within the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. It examines the challenges that service providers, clergy, and advocates in these areas see immigrant women grappling with on a daily basis, as well as the broad array of resources that religious and secular organizations offer to address these challenges. In documenting these resources, the report highlights the remarkable efforts of groups that strive to assist immigrant women in contexts often shaped by strong anti-immigrant sentiment and restrictive public policies. It also explores the gaps in resources that continue to remain despite these efforts and captures the views of organizational leaders on how programsand policies can be improved to support Latina immigrants.Based on the research findings, the report makes recommendations for changes in policies and practices that would benefit immigrant women and their families. We hopethese recommendations will be useful to advocates, clergy, service providers, policymakers, and others who support the inclusion of immigrant women in communities and society.

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Authors: Hess, Cynthia; Williams, Claudia; Henrici, Jane

Publisher: Institute for Women's Policy Research

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

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