Abstract
The impact health care restructuring has had on the work lives of visible minority women is examined. Five women from different areas of the Caribbean who had trained in Britain and sought employment in Canada between 1950-1971 were interviewed. The experiences of these immigrant nurses were analyzed. How professionalization and proletarianization, common themes within nursing, fail to include minority women within its discourse; and how these processes affect Caribbean immigrant nurses in ways that reinforce class and race biases in sex-segmented occupations are examined.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 57-60 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Canadian Woman Studies |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| State | Published - Mar 1 1998 |
Keywords
- CLASSISM
- DISCRIMINATION
- EMPLOYMENT (Economic theory)
- FEMALE-intensive occupations
- HEALTH care reform
- WOMEN immigrants
- INTERVIEWS
- MINORITY women
- NURSES
- NURSING -- Study & teaching
- NURSING -- History
- ORAL history
- PROFESSIONALIZATION
- NURSING
- RACISM
- WOMEN -- Social conditions
- CANADA