Being a woman in the immigrant context signals many of the same concerns that being a woman does generally. Immigrant women, depending on location, are simultaneously granted benefits unavailable to men and ignored or denied care provided to citizens and their male counterparts in institutional settings. Geographically speaking, there is a stark contrast between the benefits and disadvantages of being a woman while searching for opportunity or struggling to survive. The following discusses the ways in which female immigrants use gender to capitalize on rights in receiving countries that they are not afforded elsewhere while also considering the many burdens women face in obtaining care.
Recently, some of Central Europe’s more generous welfare states, particularly France and Denmark, have faced economic problems which they attribute to a large influx of immigrants from Russia, Hungary, Bosnia, Iran, Lebanon, and North Africa. Each state essentially claims that its welfare system, which...
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Przybysz, A.M. (2012). Women. In: Loue, S., Sajatovic, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Immigrant Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5659-0_288
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