Breaching the walls of academe: the case of five Afro-Caribbean immigrant women within United States institutions of higher education

摘要: While a growing tendency among researchers has been for the examination of diverse forms discrimination against Afro-Caribbean immigrants within United States (US), types ambiguities that these create framing personal and professional identities women academics who operate space remain relatively absent. The literature is also devoid substantive explorations delve into ways extent to which cultural scripts both constrain enable their success in academe. call therefore critical examinations deepen, while extending existing lived realities US, and, specific trepidations they confront overcome quest academic host societies.  Using intersectionality as overarching framework this work, we demonstrate, through use narrative inquiry, constructions difference nuance social axes power, politics identity, outcomes immigrant given context. These are captured our interrogation structures power culture fight break institutional politics.