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Title: Work Makes a Woman? Gender, Ethnicity and Work in Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Women's Lives

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2002

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Abstract: This dissertation is based on an ethnographic study of Afro-Caribbean immigrant women who do nursing work in New York City. The study examines women's personal experiences and subjective understandings of nursing work in the U.S. It also explores the meaning of immigration and work in everyday life for these immigrant women.Overall, the study supports the notion that narrative identities are themselves strategies of negotiation, and involve creating an identity that is more or less congruent with the current social situation. The salience and persistence of particular narrative identities suggest that they are social practices that Afro-Caribbean immigrant women regularly enact, and which are taken-for-granted features of women's lives.

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Authors: Bennett, Natalie D.A.

Institution: University of Michigan

Department: Sociology

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Degree: Doctor of Philosophy

Publisher Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan

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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

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