“Changing the Rules of the Game”: Experiences of Jewish Immigrants From the Former Soviet Union

Morgenshtern, Marina; Pollack, Shoshana

doi:10.1080/08952833.2014.917571

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“…In addition, the participants reported changes in couples' relational experiences as a result of the alterations in the established work/family arrangements. These relational experiences are reported elsewhere (Morgenshtern Marina 2014).…”

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“My Family’s Weight on My Shoulders”: Experiences of Jewish Immigrant Women from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) in Toronto

Morgenshtern

2019

Social Sciences

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In dominant western society, we tend to interpret the experiences of immigrant women as emancipation and liberation, rather than as the complex experiences of subjects acting within several hegemonic systems. While intersectional and transnational feminism led to questioning this view through the discussion of the challenges faced by immigrant women from developing countries, their counterparts from socialist countries have been largely ignored. To address this gap, this article focuses on the employment and social reproduction experiences of 11 white, professional, heterosexual, immigrant Jewish women from the former Soviet Union (FSU) who are now living in Toronto, Canada. The data used in this article was collected as part of a study on lived experiences of Jewish immigrant couples from FSU in Toronto. This study utilized intersectional feminist analysis as a theoretical framework and combined the qualitative methodologies of Testimonio and Oral History. This data suggests that, for these women, immigration had mixed outcomes. Although the material conditions of their lives may have changed, the traditional moral associations between femininity, domesticity, and maternity remained strong. Apparent heterosexual privilege both challenged and reinforced their subordination, in that it facilitated their access to Canadian education and professional jobs and promoted their social legitimacy/status, while also resulting in greater subordination at work and home where they had more tasks to fulfill than in premigration life. These findings challenge the monolithic representation of immigrant women’s experience and enhance our ability to generate a more comprehensive theory of those experiences.

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“…This article focuses on the experiences of women, as reported by the study participants. Other research findings are reported elsewhere (Morgenshtern and Pollack 2016;Morgenshtern Marina 2014).…”

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“My Family’s Weight on My Shoulders”: Experiences of Jewish Immigrant Women from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) in Toronto

Morgenshtern

2019

Social Sciences

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“…Approaches to research and to gathering data, especially in qualitative research, seem to consistently expand. This occurs both as researchers find novel ways of accessing, presenting, and interpreting data (such as in the case of testimonio or of autoethnography), refine what constitutes a method (such as the distinctions of analytic and performative autoethnography), develop new methods by combining existing approaches (such as combining testimonio and feminist oral histories to capture the meaning making of both collective and individual experiences (see Morgenshtern, 2012), and recognize Indigenous research approaches. We have recently come to appreciate the value of (exa)mining journal archives through critical discourse analysis.…”

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The value of sourcing social work journals for critical discourse analysis

Morgenshtern

Schmid

2023

Qualitative Social Work

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Using the contents of journals has been an underutilized research approach in social work. Journal archives represent what has been legitimated in the discipline as well as what forms the dominant social work canon. To theorize about journal archival sourcing as a research method, we cite the limited extant examples, drawing out from these the methodology used. We then make a case for the value of journal mining and in particular from the vantage point of critical social work and critical discourse analysis, position the Foucauldian history of the present as an appropriate tool for analysis. We draw this article together by describing how to employ this research method and argue that this might be an exceptionally useful tool at this point of the discipline’s history.

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Migrating as a couple: Changing marital dynamics and redefining priorities in the face of migratory challenges

Goudet

2023

Enfances, Familles, Générations

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“Changing the Rules of the Game”: Experiences of Jewish Immigrants From the Former Soviet Union

Cited by 3 publications

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“My Family’s Weight on My Shoulders”: Experiences of Jewish Immigrant Women from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) in Toronto

“My Family’s Weight on My Shoulders”: Experiences of Jewish Immigrant Women from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) in Toronto

The value of sourcing social work journals for critical discourse analysis

Migrating as a couple: Changing marital dynamics and redefining priorities in the face of migratory challenges

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