MOTHERS WITHOUT CITIZENSHIP: Asian Immigrant Families and the Consequences of Welfare Reform Lynn Fujiwara
Lynn Fujiwara reveals a neglected aspect of the Asian immigrant story: the ill effects of welfare reform on Asian immigrant women and families. Fujiwara argues that these measures redefined immigrants as outsiders whose lack of citizenship was used to deem them ineligible for public benefits. At once astute policy analysis and insightful research, Mothers without Citizenship offers nuance to the discussion
of the consequences of social policy on Asian immigrant communities.
"Perceptive and compelling, Mothers Without Citizenship convincingly illustrates how degrading constructions of race, gender, and class demonize poor Southeast Asian refugee women and their families as `inassimilable' foreigners, and therefore, undeserving of citizenship and public assistance. Lynn Fujiwara forces us to rethink how we treat the most vulnerable in our society." Linda Trinh Vo, author of Mobilizing an Asian American Community
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