Contributors to this volume explore the obstacles to assimilation and treatment of immigrant women in the United States, Canada, and Australia. The first section focuses on labour force experiences of women who have immigrated from Mexico and Latin America, Eastern Europe, Korea, The Philippines, India and other parts of Asia. Contains a tackling of the controversial issue of the leading immigrant-receiving nations' unwillingness to declare gender an explicit ground for persecution and thus for gaining refugee status. The second section deals with social class and English language acquisition, the obstacles women have had to overcome in gaining refugee status and a comparison of movement patterns between different commentaries in Mexico and the United States on the part of Mexican male and female immigrants.