"Working Much Harder and Always Having to Prove Yourself": Immigrant Women's Labor Force Experiences in the Canadian Maritimes

Advances in Gender Research

Volumn 9, Issue , 2005, Pages 201-233

  Tastsoglou, Evangelia ^a   Miedema, Baukje ^a  

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EID: 33645860506     PISSN: 15292126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1529-2126(05)09008-9     Document Type: Review

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