Women Immigrants Key to Family Unity

We women have always known that women are the key to family unity. Why does it take a survey to discover this? But I am happy that this survey tells everyone. - - Donna Poisl

New America Media, News Report, Viji Sundaram

ATLANTA, Ga. -- Women immigrants must overcome formidable barriers when they first come to the United States, but their determination to hold their families together helps them overcome many of those obstacles.

Those are among the findings of a recent New America Media-commissioned national survey that pollster Sergio Bendixen shared with a tightly packed gathering here at the Hyatt Regency Hotel on June 5 at a forum, "Women in Ethnic Media Breakfast: Women Changing the Face of Immigration and Journalism."

NAM chief of staff Odette Keeley, who immigrated from the Philippines nine years ago, said women are redefining themselves both in the home and the workplace.

Meredith Greene Megaw, communications director at the Committee to Protect Journalists, a press freedom advocacy group, talked about her organization's efforts to shine the spotlight on the two North Korean journalists and the Iranian American journalist, Roxanna Saberi, all of whom were arrested while in pursuit of stories.
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