%0 Journal Article %T Participation on the Margins of Immigrant WomenĄŻs Lives and Learnings %A Sondra Cuban %J Literacy and Numeracy Studies %D 2009 %I UTS ePRESS %X This study focuses on the participation and learning of five women immigrants in the Northwest US and the ways community-based organisations (CBOs) operated in their work and community lives. The study points to the ways that the women became assertive at work, moved from the private into the public sphere, and developed caring literacies in their communities. %U http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/lnj/article/view/1279