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Modernization and Global Restructuring of Women's Work

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<strong>Modernization</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Restructuring</strong> <strong>of</strong> Women’s <strong>Work</strong>:<br />

Border-Crossing Stories <strong>of</strong> Iranian Women*<br />

Parin Dossa<br />

Department <strong>of</strong> Sociology & Anthropology<br />

Simon Fraser University<br />

Burnaby, B.C.<br />

V5A 3Z8<br />

pdossa@sfu.ca<br />

March 2002<br />

* Funding for this project was provided by SSHRC <strong>and</strong> the Vancouver Centre for Excellence on Research on<br />

Immigration <strong>and</strong> Integration in the Metropolis (RIIM). I would like to express my gratitude to Nadia for<br />

sharing her story with me <strong>and</strong> to the three anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. I wish to thank<br />

Sunera Thobani for inviting me to the conference on Asian Connections where this paper was first presented<br />

<strong>and</strong> David Ley, Co-director <strong>of</strong> RIIM, for his continuing support.

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