Please come listen to Professor Elizabeth Clifford?s Sabbatical talk on Friday, April 25, 2008; 10:00 am in Linthicum 014.
Entering through the Front Door: Women Immigrating to the U.S. through Regular Means of Entry
This talk is part of a larger research project on women who have immigrated to the United States. One of the questions in that larger project is about how the women get here. In this talk, I?m focusing on those who come to this country, ?through the front door? – those women who used regular means of entry, arriving with visas and with the permission of the U.S. government. Through listening to the stories of immigrant women, we see that gender often complicates the reasons for immigrating, the process of immigrating, the policies governing immigration, and the experiences of adjusting to a new life in the United States. Throughout the accounts of their motivations for immigrating and process of immigration, we see the interplay between structure and agency: the obstacles women immigrants face, and the ways in which they navigate this system in order to better their lives and contribute to this country.
For more information, please contact the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice at 410-704-2852 or {soan@towson.edu}.
