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Dr. Edil Torres Rivera:

I believe that you would serve as an excellent reviewer of the manuscript, "Gender Rules: Discrimination and Tradition Among Caribbean-Born Women in US Colleges," which has been submitted to Revista Interamericana de Psicologia/Interamerican Journal of Psychology. The submission's abstract is inserted below, and I hope that you will consider undertaking this important task for us.

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The review itself is due 2016-07-14.

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Submission URL: http://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP/reviewer/submission/25

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Dr. Edil Torres Rivera
Universidad del Valle, Guatemala
etorresrivera@gmail.com



"Gender Rules: Discrimination and Tradition Among Caribbean-Born Women in US Colleges"

Abstract

The experiences of immigrant women of color within US higher education provide a unique opportunity to understand the complex influences of intersecting identities within the context of changing social contexts. A larger study was conducted to determine how the social categories of gender, class, race, and nationality operate in Caribbean immigrant women’s experience of being college students. Focus groups and life story interviews were conducted with 27 English-speaking Caribbean-born women attending CUNY undergraduate colleges. This paper presents data on women’s accounts of Caribbean gender traditions and the ways in which these affect women’s experiences in the US. The findings reveal that when women move to the US they come from cultural traditions that determined their social roles in the Caribbean and for most women, these rules continue to operate in the US. However, gender roles and traditions are not homogenous throughout the Caribbean, hence, there is variation in the ways in which these affect women’s experiences in the US. Further, in light of increased cultural contact, television, and globalization, the boundaries between some Caribbean traditions and US traditions have become less distinct. This article details these gender discrepancies and describes how they affect participants’ college pursuits and other aspects of their lives.
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Edil Torres Rivera, Ph.D., Editor
Interamerican Journal of Psychology
http://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP