| Summary: | This thesis explores the context in which immigrant women in Canada
experience violence. It will focus on the issue of why the over - all hardship
they face makes them more vulnerable when they encounter violence in their
lives. Immigrant women occupy a lower socio-economic level than both women in
general and immigrant men. They face racism, double standards, language
barriers and many other obstacles to their full and equal participation in
Canadian society. Despite these difficulties, their problems receive minimal
attention from society. There is no coherent policy towards immigrant women
and there is no theory that allows us to analyze their situation . This thesis
will argue that Canadian institutions are unable to deal adequately with
immigrant women's problems because governments only have either policy for
immigrants or policy for women. Between these two areas of policy lies a void
into which immigrant women fall . As a result immigrant women's groups are
unable to get funding. Their special needs are rarely met. In conclusion, this
thesis will argue that immigrant women's problems cannot be dealt with
unless the Canadian body politic recognizes 'immigrant women' as a separate
category. A concept such as 'immigrant women' is more than the sum of its
parts. The paper will argue that there is a need to conceptualize "immigrant
women" as a category in its own right . The realization that multiple
identities are more than the sum of their parts may be useful in analyzing
problems faced by any group of people with multiple identities. === Arts, Faculty of === Political Science, Department of === Graduate
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