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17 Refuge 1 (1998)

handle is hein.journals/rfgcjr17 and id is 1 raw text is: 1 CANADA'S P RE CAL ON ruEL Vol.17 No.1 February 1998 REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT WOMEN: AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE, PART II Introduction: Refugee and Immigrant Women as Workers Guida Man Women all over the world have always worked. From sunrise to sunset,women are alwaysbusyworking. They are often engaged in the formal labour market, working in factories, hospitals, schools, businesses; and in the informal labour market, doing home sewing, baby- sitting, or bartering; as well as being occupied in household work, cooking for others,feedingtheirbabies,washing clothes, fetching water, cleaning house, caring for the aged and the infirmed, listening to other people's problems. The work that women do are important and indispensable as part of the house- hold strategy for survival, and yet they are often invisible and taken for granted because women are not being recog- nized as legitimate workers. This issue of Refuge assembles a col- lection of studies which represent the voices of refugee and immigrantwomen. In particular, these studies document and analyze the day-to-day, traditional and non-traditional work of these women. From Kenya to Canada, from the isolated remote refugee camps to the hustle and bustle of cosmopolitan cit- ies, from hauling water for daily sub- sistence, to providing health care to strangers for pay,these studies explore how refugee and immigrant women do their work and how they manage their daily lives. As Jennifer Hydman's article on the daily work of Somali refugee women in the Kenyan camps of Ifo, Hagadera, © Guida Man, 1998. This open-access work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which permits use, reproduction and distribution in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author(s) are credited and the original publication in Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees is cited. Contents Introduction: Refugee and Immigrant Women as Workers G uida M an ....................................................................................................... 1 Shedding Their Refugee Skin: Constructions of Women Refugees and International Aid Regimes Maryanna Schmuki........................................ 4 Representing Refugee Women: Gender and Work in Three Kenyan Camps Jennifer Hyndman ................................................. 10 Refugee Women in London: The Experiences of Somali Women Rosemary Sales and Jeanne Gregory............................................................... 16 Migration and the Transformation of Work Processes: Voices of Chinese Immigrant Women in Canada Guida Man ............ 21 Speaking with Migrant Women Health Care Aides: On Marketing and Making Sense of Caregiving in Canada Gail M cCabe .................................................................................................... 26 Human Rights: Setting the Stage for Protecting Refugee Women M aryanna Schmuki ....................................................................................... 31 Canadian Truth Commission Attempts to Overcome Guatemalan Refugees' Fear and Cynicism Judith Pyke............................................... 37 40*4\

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