VivirLatino

While anti-immigrant actions and speech are facing a serious pushback, the face of immigration continues to be read as male. Immigrant women are rarely mentioned or discussed, except in the context of being breeders, bearers of anchor babies, victims, dangerous, deceptive. Immigrant women aren’t painted in the full colors of their lives as mothers and activists, artists.

Earlier this week New America Media (NAM) released the results of a poll of 1,102 immigrant women. And while the information isn’t surprising, as they reflect what immigrant women have been saying for years about their lives, pero there are those who get hung up on numbers. So what do the numbers say?

82% of Latin American women found discrimination against immigrants
to be a major problem for their family, compared to 17% for women from
African or Arab countries, and only 13% for those from China. Still, 90% of
the Latin American women said they want to become US citizens.
40% of immigrant women from Latin America and significant
percentages from other regions do not have health insurance. A clear
majority of women immigrants without health insurance are unaware of public
health programs that could help their children receive medical assistance.

The poll also found that immigrant women felt discrimination in the United States, especially immigrants from Latin America. Along the same thread, immigrant women were concerned about immigration raids and their possible impact on the family.

Pero is the image of immigrant women presented in the poll really three dimensional or does it play up old stereotypes?

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