"We are the ones who are out in front": Women's leadership in the immigrant rights movement

Feminist Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 723-752

  Milkman, Ruth ^a   Terriquez, Veronica ^a  

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64. Smith, "Race, Ethnicity, and Gender";
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67. Pessar, "Engendering Migration Studies";
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70. Cynthia Cranford, "It's Time to Leave Machismo Behind: Challenging Gender Inequality in an Immigrant Union," Gender & Society 21, no. 3 (June 2007), 432.
71. Mary Kay Henry, SEIU in 2010.
72. See Ruth Milkman and Kent Wong, Voices from the Front Lines: Organizing Immigrant Workers in Los Angeles (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education, 2000).
73. Natasha Iskander, Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010).
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84. Blackwell, Chicana Power;
85. Robnett, "African-American Women";
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