"Negotiated challenges in the workplace: Immigrant women's views and experiences of employment in Canada": Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work 27 (4), 420-434
On the basis of a qualitative study with immigrant women in Windsor, Ontario, this article looks at women’s responses to the challenges they face in the Canadian workplace, together with the value they place on working outside the home. The women reflected on their job searches, employment conditions, and work experiences as mediated by the norms and traditions of their home countries. Because of the struggle to obtain a job and the delicacy of retaining a job in a precarious economic climate, the women did not fight the discrimination they encountered in the workplace.
Uzo Anucha is an Associate Professor in York University’s Department of Social Work and the founding director of the Applied Social Welfare Research and Evaluation Group. Her work and research interests include homelessness and under-housing; immigration and diversity; community-based research; critical positive youth development; social work; international social work.
Other publications from this author include:
- "Growing New Roots: The Housing Experiences of Racialized Newcomers in a Second -Tier Canadian City" in Canadian Social Work– Special Issue on the Settlement and Integration of Newcomers to Canada (2014)
- "Housed but Homeless? Negotiating Everyday Life in a Shared Housing Program for Homeless People" in Families in Society – A Journal of Contemporary Social Services, 91 (1), 67-75 (2010)
- "Engaging the Canadian Diaspora, Youth Social Identities in a Canadian Border City" in McGill Journal of Education, 44 (3) (2009)
- "The Challenges and Possibilities of Re-visioning Social Work Education in Africa" in New Directions in African Education: Issues in Curriculum, Pedagogy, Policy and Access (2009)
- "Increased racial group breast cancer care and survival differentials in America: Historical evidence consistent with a health insurance hypothesis, 1975 to 2001" in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 113, 595-600 (2009)
- "Trans-nationalism, social identities and African youth in the Canadian diaspora" in Social Identities, 15 (2), 227-242 (2009)
- "Exploring a New Direction for Social Work Education and Training in Nigeria", Social Work Education – The International Journal, 27 (3), 229-242 (2007)
- "When a Bed is Home: The Challenges and Paradoxes of Community Development in a Shared Housing Program for Homeless People" in Canadian Review of Social Policy (58) – Special Edition on Canadian Homelessness, 62-83 (2006)