The document summarizes research on immigrant women who relocate to Canada for their spouse. It discusses Canada's immigration policies and programs that encourage newcomers to settle in smaller urban and rural areas. It also outlines challenges these women face, including lack of family support, language barriers, employment issues, and gender stereotypes. The purpose of the study is to explore the struggles and successes of these immigrant women and how their needs are considered by Manitoba's policies and services. It will use a qualitative case study methodology involving interviews to document women's experiences in their own words.

1. What Will I Tell My Daughter?
Immigrant Women Who Relocate
For Their Spouse: Issues and
Challenges
Randean Kopytko

2. Immigrants arriving at railway station, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Oseredok
http://www.oseredok.org/ucec/uofm/01c.shtml, Accessed August 10, 2012
Canada looks to immigration
 population
 economic growth
(Guruge & Collins, 2008)

3. 15
American Diversity Photo, Hispanically Speaking News,
http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com; Accessed August 10, 2012
15 years
aggressive immigration strategy
• thousands of newcomers
relocate with spouses and families

4. Provincial Nominee
Program
• increase number
of skilled
newcomers
• promote
immigration
• settle in smaller
urban and rural
areas
(Carter, 2009)
Towns and smaller cities, www.immigratemanitoba.com, Accessed August 10, 2012

5. Signing, the old-school way. Photo by qwrrty via Flickr, http://www.treehugger.com,
Accessed August 10, 2012
Canada-Manitoba Immigration
Agreement 1996
 administer federally
funded settlement services
 retain control over the Provincial
Nominee Program
(Free Press, 2012)

6. 
Winnipeg bridge monument by night, By: Marc Evans / www.picasa.com,
Accessed August 15, 2012
 long distance
 Gifford Fellowship

7. St Andrews Castle with Sea, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Andrews_Castle_Scotland.jpg,
Accessed August 15, 2012
 lack of support
 employment challenges
 credential recognition
 gender stereotypes
 have a baby

8. {W}omen are often socialized to place
family first and personal goals second
when it come to critical household
matters (Cooke, 2001, p. 445)

9. Randean Kopytko, August 15, 2012
 Adult EAL
 Temp jobs
 Familial milieu
 Language
“Who was crying this week? ”

10. “explore in depth
how the
experience of
moving shapes
women’s lives
and how the
psychology of
Jackson NH covered bridge,
women shapes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/, Accessed
August 15 ,2012 their moves”
(McCollum, 1990, p.1
7)

11. Burlington, Vermont; http://en.wikipedia.org, Accessed August 15, 2012
Divorce

12. There is reason to suspect that women play a
far more complex role-especially in migration
within advanced capitalist countries where
women are more likely to have a more
specialized role in the economy”
(Hiller & McCaig, p.458).

13. Did movers experience a sense of choice about
moving? Did they exercise that choice or
abdicate it to others? Did they make a choice
responsive to their own wishes and needs or
only to the needs and wishes of others? Did
coupled women share the decision to move
with their partner? Did they seek involvement
as a woman making decisions to safeguard or
enhance their own well-being, or as wives
helping a husband make the decision that
would serve his goals? (McCollum, 1990, p. 27/28)

14. Evaluation
of the Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program
 adapting to climate 25%
 language problems 25%
 challenges when accessing education and
training 24%
 missing family support, country 17%
 problems getting credentials recognized 26/27

15. Forty percent strongly
disagreed with the statement
“There are good opportunities
here for me” and another twenty
percent disagreed. Over fifty
percent believed that it would be
easier for them to find a job some
other community
(Carter, 2009, p.99).

16. PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
explore the struggles and successes
that immigrant women face
when they relocate for their spouse
to provide insight regarding how adequately
their needs are being considered
and met by the Province of Manitoba

17. CURRENT RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1) What are the main considerations
affecting women’s decisions to move?
2) What were their successes and
challenges during and after relocating?
3) What types of services might relocating
women benefit from?

18. DIRECTIONS OF THE LITERATURE REVIEW
 Beilby and Beilby
 McCollum
 Hiller & McCaig

19. METHODOLOGY
-“interestin how different people make sense of their
lives” a qualitative approach will be employed (Bogdan
& Knopp Biklen, 2007, p.7).
- I will examine a social phenomenon; through key
episodes or testimonies that would facilitate the use of,
“narratives to optimize the opportunity of the reader to
gain an experiential understanding of the case” (Stake,
1995, p. 40).

20. METHODOLOGY
-intent of this study is to document the
experiences of immigrant women who have
relocated for their spouse because their voices and
perspectives have been underrepresented in the
literature and to inform policy and programming.
-case studies are in-depth explorations either of
individuals or small numbers of entities that
focuses on, “relationships among different
phenomena or examine trends over time”(Polit &
Tatano Beck, 2006, p. 242).