Includes bibliographical references and index.

Coming to America : the politics of immigration and our realities as transnational migrants in US higher education / Mary V. Alfred -- Emerging from the shadows : immigrant women of color in the academy / Nomsa E. Geleta -- Caught between two cultures : coming to terms with being an immigrant scholar in U.S. higher education / Zandile P. Nkabinde -- Crossing borders : reflections on being an African transnational in academe / Otrude N. Moyo -- The coping systems of African immigrant women in U.S. higher education / Elizabeth D. Ojo -- Relational worlds : South Asian immigrant women talk about home/work / Raji Swaminathan -- Negotiating my space in academe / Ming-yeh Lee -- Dynamic tensions in relationships between women of color in community-based agencies and academia : reflections of two immigrant women in multiple roles / Kalyani Rai and Chandra Persaud -- Making the invisible visible : West Indian immigrant women and the pursuit of a "good education" across the borderlands / Mary V. Alfred -- Woman/native/other : my experiences as an anglophone Caribbean student in the United States/ Janice Fournillier -- Repositioning the soul in the heart of the academy : an agenda for self-empowerment for a British Caribbean American woman / Helen T. Oliver -- The immigrant as outsider-within : dismantling structures of inequity / Marcia Clarke-Yapi -- Being here : the politics of an (im)migrant self / María Alicia Rueda -- "Immigrant" and colonized in academia : cuando soy y cuando me paresco / Alicia Chavira-Prado -- Transnational nomad in academia : a Puerto Rican perspective / Xaé Alicia Reyes -- Conclusion : "don't you want me to go a piece of the way with you? / Raji Swaminathan and Mary V. Alfred.