a ISBN 1-594-54152-3

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Classification number LC3727

b Item number .I56 2004

a Title Immigrant women of the academy :

b Remainder of title negotiating boundaries, crossing borders in higher education /

c Statement of responsibility, etc Mary V. Alfred, Raji Swaminathan, editors ; [contributors, Mary V. Alfred ... et al.].

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Nova Science Publishers,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 2004.

a Extent xviii, 277 p. ;

c Dimensions 26 cm.

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.

a Formatted contents note Coming to America : the politics of immigration and our realities as transnational migrants in US higher education / Mary V. Alfred -- Emerging from the shadows : immigrant women of color in the academy / Nomsa E. Geleta -- Caught between two cultures : coming to terms with being an immigrant scholar in U.S. higher education / Zandile P. Nkabinde -- Crossing borders : reflections on being an African transnational in academe / Otrude N. Moyo -- The coping systems of African immigrant women in U.S. higher education / Elizabeth D. Ojo -- Relational worlds : South Asian immigrant women talk about home/work / Raji Swaminathan -- Negotiating my space in academe / Ming-yeh Lee -- Dynamic tensions in relationships between women of color in community-based agencies and academia : reflections of two immigrant women in multiple roles / Kalyani Rai and Chandra Persaud -- Making the invisible visible : West Indian immigrant women and the pursuit of a "good education" across the borderlands / Mary V. Alfred -- Woman/native/other : my experiences as an anglophone Caribbean student in the United States/ Janice Fournillier -- Repositioning the soul in the heart of the academy : an agenda for self-empowerment for a British Caribbean American woman / Helen T. Oliver -- The immigrant as outsider-within : dismantling structures of inequity / Marcia Clarke-Yapi -- Being here : the politics of an (im)migrant self / María Alicia Rueda -- "Immigrant" and colonized in academia : cuando soy y cuando me paresco / Alicia Chavira-Prado -- Transnational nomad in academia : a Puerto Rican perspective / Xaé Alicia Reyes -- Conclusion : "don't you want me to go a piece of the way with you? / Raji Swaminathan and Mary V. Alfred.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Women immigrants

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Minority women educators

a Personal name Alfred Mary Vianna

d Dates associated with a name 1951

a Personal name Swaminathan Raji

u Uniform Resource Identifier http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0420/2004015346.html