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A review of the book "Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA," by Nadia Y. Kim, is presented.

Moreover unlike other immigrants receiving countries, France to some extant have more comprehensive policies especially the social security system and perhaps the Francophone African had more advantage than the rest with regard to the aforesaid issue. "The African Immigrant Families in another France" is a classic of black skin French first and second-generation immigrants' history. The first chapter entitled "Another France" underlines the power of skin that actually determines one status in France regardless of whether one in born in France or an immigrant. [Extracted from the article]

A multigenerational novel centered on a Korean woman who flees the South Korean dictatorship and immigrates to California in 1983. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The year-old disappearance of a Korean immigrant woman in Los Angeles is still a mystery to her family when a dead Black man with a letter addressed to her appears in their yard. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In addition, Cibils examines relevant elements of the asymmetry of power including: exploitation, social policy discourses, and persistent structural conditions impacting women. Based on these notions, she aptly dissects ideas connected to parenthood - which often equals motherhood in social policy discourses (Cibils, 2017) - and contrasts them with the concept of motherwork (Collins, [3]). These stories not only remind us of the pressing need "for diverse cultural stories of motherhood" (Cibils, 2017, p. 71), but they also point to further considerations regarding social and educational policies. [Extracted from the article]

In Lilian Cibils's dissertation-turned-book, Immigration, Motherhood and Parental Involvement: Narratives of Communal Agency in the Face of Power Asymmetry (2017), the stories of seven Mexican immigrant mothers provide insight into what motherhood looks like outside the mainstream ideology of parental involvement. Using a critical feminist lens, Cibils employs the concept of motherwork as an alternative to a cultural deficit approach for understanding Mexican immigrant motherhood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A review of the book "Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA," by Nadia Y. Kim, is presented.

Underlying Monica Ali’s endorsement of liberalism in her novel Brick Lane is a critique of the culturally relativistic views promoted by advocates of postcolonialism and multiculturalism in the West. Stressing the universality of the desire for freedom and autonomy, Ali’s liberal point of view seeks to shed light on the predicament of less powerful members of non-Western cultures, such as women, who are oppressed by the customs and traditions of their cultures. By employing a liberal perspective, however, Ali not only oversimplifies the cultural concerns of the Bangladeshi immigrants in England but also reproduces a problematic and stereotypical picture of Bangladesh. Thus, she vindicates postcolonial arguments regarding the inadequacies of liberal perspectives in understanding non-Western societies and cultures. Espousing different perceptions of cultures and individual agency, Ali and her postcolonial critics also stand for two distinct sets of concerns, experiences, and aspirations. In opposing one another, these two perspectives serve to complicate our overall conceptions of non-Western societies and cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In diasporic literature, alimentary motifs tend to play oppositional roles in relation to nostalgia: either they are evoked to reify longing for homeland, or to disavow it. Closely linked to these roles, and especially pertinent to immigrant women, is also food's function as critique of ideology. This essay explores food and food-related motifs in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's poems to elicit the paradox of nostalgia inherent in them, while also demonstrating their further complication of nostalgia as a concept. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the midst of the global financial crisis and in the ‘anti-race era’, Europe has witnessed a revival of deeply racialized discourses targeting the Roma, leading to new discriminatory practices and legitimating existing ones in many social domains. While westward Roma immigration has spurred these discourses, it has also favored the emergence of invisible grassroots reactions against them that need to be further analyzed. Drawing on interviews with migrant Romani women, this article aims to shed light on these unknown processes, as experienced by women in Romani women-based solidarity networks. Data show that these networks help the women to access basic social facilities, while also challenging the abovementioned racialized discourses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A review of the book "Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights," by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, is presented.