Living in the South, Caring in the North: Exploring Inuit Women’s Care Responsibilities
The increased Inuit population in Canadian Metropolitan Areas (CMA) has recently gained attention among the scientific community as well as within Inuit organizations. However, existing literature has overlooked the distinct experience of Inuit women and, more significantly, the importance of care r...
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ftunivwontaojs:oai:ojs.uwo.ca:article/8192 2023-05-15T16:54:02+02:00 Living in the South, Caring in the North: Exploring Inuit Women’s Care Responsibilities Quintal-Marineau, Magalie Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada 2020-11-05 application/pdf https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/iipj/article/view/8192 eng eng Western University https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/iipj/article/view/8192/8810 https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/iipj/article/view/8192 Copyright (c) 2020 Magalie Quintal-Marineau, Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND The International Indigenous Policy Journal; Vol. 11 No. 4 (2020); 1-19 International Indigenous Policy Journal; Vol. 11 No. 4 (2020); 1-19 1916-5781 Inuit women care colonialism migration gender roles info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article text 2020 ftunivwontaojs 2023-02-05T19:15:52Z The increased Inuit population in Canadian Metropolitan Areas (CMA) has recently gained attention among the scientific community as well as within Inuit organizations. However, existing literature has overlooked the distinct experience of Inuit women and, more significantly, the importance of care responsibilities in understanding women’s mobility. This study examines the relocation experiences of 46 Inuit women across five CMAs, and the role care sites play in initiating women’s relocation to cities. Results show the key role caregiving responsibilities play in Inuit women’s decisions to move to southern urban areas, as dysfunctional care spaces in the North push them away from their communities, and the potential for safer care sites in the South act as a pulling factor. Article in Journal/Newspaper inuit Western Libraries OJS International Indigenous Policy Journal 11 4 1 19 |
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The increased Inuit population in Canadian Metropolitan Areas (CMA) has recently gained attention among the scientific community as well as within Inuit organizations. However, existing literature has overlooked the distinct experience of Inuit women and, more significantly, the importance of care responsibilities in understanding women’s mobility. This study examines the relocation experiences of 46 Inuit women across five CMAs, and the role care sites play in initiating women’s relocation to cities. Results show the key role caregiving responsibilities play in Inuit women’s decisions to move to southern urban areas, as dysfunctional care spaces in the North push them away from their communities, and the potential for safer care sites in the South act as a pulling factor. |
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Living in the South, Caring in the North: Exploring Inuit Women’s Care Responsibilities |
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