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Difficulties experienced by migrant women are often defined in terms of problems that result from being migrants, eg, from having a different language & culture, which hinder integration. Measures undertaken by the receiving society to alleviate these difficulties, eg, compensatory education, often merely, reproduce the powerless position of the migrants -- making the migrants believe that they are deficient, & that any problems are their own fault. An alternative "education," a "school strike" organized by migrant women in a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden, is discussed, as a means of empowering resistance. 1 Table, 51 References. Modified HA

The image of the isolated migrant woman is not, in terms of ties to the labor market, supported by an inspection of Turkish women's work situation in five Western European countries. Employed Turkish migrant women, like their migrant sisters & the indigenous F population, are found in a segregated labor market. However, they are doubly handicapped: as women in the labor market & as outsiders in a new culture. Their work situation is worsened by restrictive migration policies, which often force them into the underground economy. Not eligible for social welfare benefits, these unregistered workers are extravulnerable to growing unemployment. Limited occupational mobility was also found among second-generation Turkish girls. 24 References. HA

Based on conference paper. Focuses on their disproportional concentration within the manual sectors of women's work.