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Women and the L.A. Immigrant Rights Movement
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Royce Hall - Room 314
A Center for the Study of Women Senior Feminist Faculty Seminar
Admission
Free and open to the public
Contact
UCLA Center for the Study of Women
(310) 825-0590
csw@csw.ucla.edu
Website
http://www.csw.ucla.edu/calendar_ex.html#Milkman
Additional Information
Women and the L.A. Immigrant Rights Movement—a seminar with Ruth Milkman, Sociology, UCLA; Veronica Terriquez, Sociology, USC; and respondent Maylei Blackwell, Chicana/o Studies, UCLA—is sponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women.
Drawing on interviews with Latino immigrant women who are activists in the L.A. immigrant rights movement, we examine the gender dynamics of this movement. Our focus is on an apparent paradox: namely, women are prominent among the ranks of activists in the movement, but issues of gender equality are rarely prominent on the agenda. We seek to explain the reasons why, looking at the gender dynamics of the migration process itself.
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