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What Will I Tell My Daughter? Immigrant Women Who Relocate For Their Spouse: Issues and
Challenges
Randean Kopytko
Canada looks to immigration population
economic growth (Guruge & Collins, 2008)
Immigrants arriving at railway station, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Oseredokhttp://www.oseredok.org/ucec/uofm/01c.shtml, Accessed August 10, 2012
15
15 years aggressive immigration strategy• thousands of newcomers
relocate with spouses and families
American Diversity Photo, Hispanically Speaking News,http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com; Accessed August 10, 2012
Provincial Nominee Program
• increase number of skilled newcomers• promote immigration
• settle in smaller urban and rural areas
(Carter, 2009)
Towns and smaller cities, www.immigratemanitoba.com, Accessed August 10, 2012
Canada-Manitoba Immigration Agreement 1996
administer federally funded settlement services
retain control over the Provincial Nominee Program
(Free Press, 2012)
Signing, the old-school way. Photo by qwrrty via Flickr, http://www.treehugger.com, Accessed August 10, 2012
long distance Gifford Fellowship
Winnipeg bridge monument by night, By: Marc Evans / www.picasa.com, Accessed August 15, 2012
lack of support employment challenges credential recognition gender stereotypes
have a baby
St Andrews Castle with Sea, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Andrews_Castle_Scotland.jpg, Accessed August 15, 2012
{W}omen are often socialized to place family first and personal goals second
when it come to critical household matters (Cooke, 2001, p. 445)
Adult EAL Temp jobs
Familial milieu Language
“Who was crying this week? ”
Randean Kopytko, August 15, 2012
“explore in depth how the
experience of moving shapes women’s lives and how the psychology of
women shapes their moves”
(McCollum, 1990, p.17)
Jackson NH covered bridge, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/, Accessed August 15 ,2012
Divorce
Burlington, Vermont; http://en.wikipedia.org, Accessed August 15, 2012
There is reason to suspect that women play a far more complex role-especially in migration
within advanced capitalist countries where women are more likely to have a more
specialized role in the economy”(Hiller & McCaig, p.458).
Did movers experience a sense of choice about moving? Did they exercise that choice or abdicate it to others? Did they make a choice responsive to their own wishes and needs or only to the needs and wishes of others? Did coupled women share the decision to move with their partner? Did they seek involvement as a woman making decisions to safeguard or enhance their own well-being, or as wives helping a husband make the decision that would serve his goals? (McCollum, 1990, p. 27/28)
Evaluationof the Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program
adapting to climate 25% language problems 25%
challenges when accessing education and training 24%
missing family support, country 17% problems getting credentials recognized
26/27
Forty percent strongly disagreed with the statement “There are good opportunities
here for me” and another twenty percent disagreed. Over fifty
percent believed that it would be easier for them to find a job some
other community (Carter, 2009, p.99).
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
explore the struggles and successes that immigrant women face
when they relocate for their spouse
to provide insight regarding how adequately their needs are being considered
and met by the Province of Manitoba
CURRENT RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1)What are the main considerations affecting women’s decisions to move?
2)What were their successes and challenges during and after relocating?
3)What types of services might relocating women benefit from?
DIRECTIONS OF THE LITERATURE REVIEW
Beilby and Beilby
McCollum
Hiller & McCaig
METHODOLOGY
-“interest in how different people make sense of their lives” a qualitative approach will be employed (Bogdan & Knopp Biklen, 2007, p.7).
- I will examine a social phenomenon; through key episodes or testimonies that would facilitate the use of, “narratives to optimize the opportunity of the reader to gain an experiential understanding of the case” (Stake, 1995, p. 40).
-intent of this study is to document the experiences of immigrant women who have relocated for their spouse because their voices and perspectives have been underrepresented in the literature and to inform policy and programming.
-case studies are in-depth explorations either of individuals or small numbers of entities that focuses on, “relationships among different phenomena or examine trends over time”(Polit & Tatano Beck, 2006, p. 242).
METHODOLOGY