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Despite the growing number of immigrant women in the country, the interests and concerns of foreign-born females are often overlooked in public policy debates. Forthcoming research from IWPR, demonstrates that women immigrants experience specific challenges compared with their male counterparts, such as domestic violence and reproductive health issues. IWPR conducts research that seeks to analyze the social and economic circumstances of immigrant women, explore the resources available to them, and raise the visibility of immigrant women’s contributions and concerns in public policy debates.
IWPR recently completed a two-year study, funded by the Ford Foundation, that examined the roles of religious communities and nonprofit organizations in addressing the challenges faced by Latina immigrants in Atlanta, GA; Phoenix, AZ; and Northern Virginia, a region within the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Based on more than 450 interviews with clergy and other organizational leaders and IWPR’s demographic data analysis, the study explored the circumstances of immigrant women in these regions. The report examines the impact of public policies in promoting or restricting immigrants’ access to resources, and assesses the nature and scope of collaborative action among religious communities and other organizations working to assist immigrant women through services or advocacy on behalf of immigrant rights.
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Latest Reports from IWPR
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New Families, New Friends: Organizations Working With Latina Immigrants, Strategy Forum Report This report summarizes the presentations from a strategy forum co-hosted by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) and Arizona State University (ASU) in April 2010. Held in Phoenix, Arizona, during the week the Arizona State Legislature passed the controversial legislation SB 1070, the forum brought together researchers, activists, clergy, and other community stakeholders working with immigrant women, especially Latinas.
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Women and Immigration-Cynthia Hess
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Figures Excerpted from IWPR’s Upcoming Report, Organizations Working with Latina Immigrants: Resources and Strategies for Change
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Organizations Working with Latina Immigrants: Resources and Strategies for Change IWPR’s study explored the challenges many Latina immigrants face and the ways that nonprofit organizations and congregations strive to address them in three areas with rapidly growing immigrant populations: Atlanta, Georgia; Phoenix, Arizona; and Northern Virginia, a region within the Washington, District of Columbia (DC), metropolitan area.
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#I922, report, 108 pages
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Social and Economic Status of Latina Immigrants in Phoenix One in ten Arizona residents was born abroad and identifies as Latino or Latina. In Phoenix, this number is nearly one in eight. Nationally, Latino immigrant men slightly outnumber women (54 percent to 46 percent), but in Arizona and Phoenix, the proportions of men and women are approximately equal. Latino/a immigrants face a range of social and economic vulnerabilities that often disproportionately affect women.
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