The interplay of gender, migration, socio-economics, and health : Interplay of gender, migration, socioeconomics, and health

We use information collected from individual and group interviews with a total of 30 immigrant women and men of various backgrounds and immigration experiences and explore the infl uence of employment, socio-economics, gender, social support, neighbourhood and community, and access to health care. [...] Local community organizations (volunteer, non-profi t, and non-government) promote health directly (Hawe, 1994) and serve to monitor and critique the state with the goal of. [...] The assumption underlying culturalization is cultural inferiority, and the solutions proposed usually involve efforts to improve individual level integration and adaptation to the dominant culture without paying attention to the barriers erected by that culture. [...] Without consent from the entire group to audio-record the group interviews, all information reported was extracted from detailed fi eld notes and debriefi ng sessions (audio-recorded and transcribed) between the group facilitator and the note-taker. [...] Gender and Identity Immigrants are often forced to negotiate between the roles learned in their country of origin and the new roles expected of.