Motivated migrants: (Re)framing Arab women's experiences

Killian, Caitlin; Olmsted, Jennifer C.; Doyle, Alexis

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2012.09.006

Cited by 14 publications

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“…The study population was not highly educated or consistently involved in the workforce (except for one of the women). Their experiences of migration do not mirror those of more educated or more recent economic migrants, where social mobility and educational advancement can be driving factors (Killian, Olmsted, & Doyle, ).…”

Section: Limitations and Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social dimensions of health across the life course: Narratives of Arab immigrant women ageing in Canada

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The increase in ethnically and linguistically diverse older adults in Canada necessitates attention to their experiences and needs for healthy ageing. Arab immigrant women often report challenges in maintaining health, but little is known about their ageing experiences. This interpretive descriptive study uses a transnational life course framework to understand Arab Muslim immigrant women's experiences of engaging in health-promoting practices as they age in Canada. Women's stories highlight social dimensions of health such social connectedness, social roles and social support that are constructed and maintained within different migration contexts across the life course. Barriers and facilitators to healthy ageing in this population centred around five themes: (i) the necessity of staying strong, (ii) caring for self while caring for others, (iii) double jeopardy of chronic illnesses and loneliness, (iv) inadequate support within large social networks and (v) navigating access to health-supporting resources. The findings point to transnational connections and post-migration social support as major influencers in creating facilitators and barriers to healthy ageing for Arab Muslim immigrant women.

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Section: Limitations and Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social dimensions of health across the life course: Narratives of Arab immigrant women ageing in Canada

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“…They want to stay and to seek job in their own area. However, majority former migrant women coming back home usually have habit adverse to themselves, consumptive behavior and not focusing on having their own job [26]. Former migrant women aware of the need for making themselves and their family prosperous will make change, improve their and their family's wellbeing by no longer behaving consumptively, expand networking, think of creating job opportunity, and not rely on remittance.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Change of Former Female Migrants Lifestyle in Sragen Indonesia

Demartoto¹,

Soemanto²

2018

Proceedings of the Annual Civic Education Conference (ACEC 2018)

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Former Female Migrants are identical with less skilled workers having minimum knowledge and skill thereby relying on only remittance to fulfil their life need. This research aimed to find out the change of former female migrants' lifestyle in Sragen, Indonesia, analyzed using Garner's social change theory. This qualitative research with case study approach processed the data in-depth and comprehensively through observation, interview, and documentation. The result of research showed that former female migrants used remittance excessively until it is used up rather than used it as business capital. Originally, it could improve their family economy, but after they come back home, they should adapt to environment in their origin area in which husband relies for their life on their wife's income when they become migrants, children begins to need more attention from a mother, and household need increases. For the sake of their and family's life former female migrant takes a strategy to enable them to maintain their family wellbeing just like that when they became migrants. The strategy taken by former female migrants is to utilize their remittance optimally for business capital and creating a social network containing productive activities that can increase their income. The activity is conducted in group, including goat breeding, food catering, vegetable-processed food, and handicraft production. Former migrant women who have a business group had equal rights in employment so as to have a lifestyle change was effected in the former migrant women. Their rights when productive activities were carried out because it can access knowledge, information, and capital assistance.

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“…Women may be selected to migrate to further the family's economic interests because women are considered especially reliable in terms of sending remittances to the family after migration (Goldin et al, 2011). However, there may be power imbalances in women's relationships with male partners that influence women's migration process by prioritizing the male partners' needs (Killian, Olmsted, & Doyle, 2012;Meares, 2010). Additionally, economic opportunities for women may be lower paid and less stable than those for their male counterparts due to their overrepresentation in domestic and care work (Fitzpatrick, 1997;Henrici, 2013).…”

Section: Immigrant Women and The Migration Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In some cases, the decisions to migrate were made by their male partners. This is a critical aspect of the pre-migration process, as prior scholarship has also suggested that for some women, the decision to migrate may reflect a power imbalance in which the male partner's economic needs and choices are prioritized (Killian et al, 2012;Meares, 2010). For a couple of women, economic reasons for coming to the U.S. were related to the needs of their families of origin.…”

Section: Women's Pre-migration Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Two years later, Marisol joined him to help with his care after he went blind and lost his speech from the diabetes. These participants reflect the complex picture of women's migration in which they enact individual agency, but may be influenced or constrained by family needs (Glick, 2010;Settles, 2001) and the socio-political context in terms of ability or lack of ability to access certain types of health care (Killian et al, 2012).…”

Section: Women's Pre-migration Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Turning Points and Transitions: The Role of Family in Women’s Immigration Experiences

Vesely

Goodman

Scurlock

2014

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Given the significant number of immigrants in the United States, especially immigrant families with young children, there is a need to better understand the experiences of immigrant women, and especially immigrant mothers. In particular, the factors impacting women's decisions to migrate, migration journeys, and post-migration adjustment should be examined. Framed in family life course theory and using ethnographic, in-depth interviews, we explored these three immigration phases for 40 first-generation Latina and African immigrant women who experienced motherhood in the U.S. Results of the study expand the literature focused on immigration experiences by considering turning points and transitions in women's migration processes, as they are shaped by both micro-(family) and macro-(socio-historical) level factors. The findings illustrate the spontaneous nature of some decisions to migrate, as well as how immigration journeys are influenced by the financial and physical supports of families and the status of their documentation. In addition, study findings point to motherhood as an important turning point for first-generation immigrant women in their adjustment to life in the U.S., and particularly in their planning with respect to staying long term. Implications for programs, policy, and future research are discussed.

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Motivated migrants: (Re)framing Arab women's experiences

Cited by 14 publications

References 32 publications

Social dimensions of health across the life course: Narratives of Arab immigrant women ageing in Canada

Social dimensions of health across the life course: Narratives of Arab immigrant women ageing in Canada

The Change of Former Female Migrants Lifestyle in Sragen Indonesia

Turning Points and Transitions: The Role of Family in Women’s Immigration Experiences

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