Empowering Migrant Women

Author : Leah Briones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317144151

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Empowering Migrant Women by Leah Briones Pdf

Based on insights from Filipina experiences of domestic work in Paris and Hong Kong, this volume breaks through the polarized thinking and migration-centric policy action on the protection of migrant women domestic workers from abuse to link migrants' rights and victimization with livelihood, migration and development. The book contextualizes agency and rights in the workers' capability to secure a livelihood in the global political economy and is instrumental in making the problem of migrant women workers' empowerment both a migration and development agenda. The volume is essential reading for social scientists, bureaucrats and non-governmental political activists interested in the protection of the rights and livelihoods of migrants. It will also appeal to migration and feminist scholars who have yet to adopt the contribution of critical development studies in the analysis of low-skilled female labour migration.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Women
ISBN : UCLA:L0102912664

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Working to Prevent and Address Violence Against Women Migrant Workers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sufian, Farha D.,Alvi, Muzna Fatima,Ratna, Nazmun N.,Ringler, Claudia,Choudhury, Zahid ul Arefin
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Development and Validation of Women’s Empowerment in Migration Index (WEMI) by Sufian, Farha D.,Alvi, Muzna Fatima,Ratna, Nazmun N.,Ringler, Claudia,Choudhury, Zahid ul Arefin Pdf

There is little evidence on the association between women’s migration, empowerment, and well-being, driven in part due to difficulty in measuring empowerment in the migration context. To better understand these linkages, we developed a Women’s Empowerment in Migration Index (WEMI) and validated it with survey of 1019 returnee female migrants in Bangladesh, who had returned after working internationally, mostly from countries in West Asia. By incorporating indicators of subjective well-being from migration literature into measures of empowerment, our paper advances research over earlier assessments of women’s experiences in the migration process beyond seemingly objective indicators, such as income, health, and economic welfare. We find that 14% of all migrant women in our sample could be classified as being empowered. Lack of membership in groups, restricted mobility, and lack of asset ownership are the largest contributors to migrant women’s disempowerment in our sample. We find that WEMI is strongly correlated with other measures of well-being, including mental health and livelihood-efficacy. Women with higher empowerment scores are also less likely to experience discriminatory labor practices and unsafe work conditions. With broad applicability to migrants from low and middle-income countries, WEMI can be used as a tool, helping to identify sources of disempowerment, and enabling stakeholders to develop interventions targeting the welfare of women migrant workers.

Author : Nyemba, Florence,Chitiyo, Rufaro
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781799846659

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Immigrant Women’s Voices and Integrating Feminism Into Migration Theory by Nyemba, Florence,Chitiyo, Rufaro Pdf

Migration is a multifaceted phenomenon that plays a critical role in today’s world, yet there have been few attempts to look beneath the surface of the mass movements of people. Particularly, the changing face of migration is becoming more feminized, with women increasingly moving as independent or single migrants rather than as the wives, mothers, or daughters of male migrants. Yet, in literature on migration, the voices of women are still silent. This creates an urgent need to advance academic research on female international migration by examining women as independent migrants. Immigrant Women’s Voices and Integrating Feminism Into Migration Theory comprehensively documents the experiences of immigrant women across the globe and the important theories that define their experiences. The chapters give firsthand accounts of women speaking about their own experiences on migration and topics associated with women and migration. This book aims to give women their own voice and to stand apart from previous literature in which male relatives spoke on behalf of immigrant women to tell their stories for them. While highlighting topics on women in migration including feminism, gendered social roles, first-person narratives, and the female identity, this book is ideally for professionals in social science disciplines as well as practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students wanting to expand their knowledge on women and migration, gender violence, and women empowerment.

Author : Popy Devi Nath
Publisher : Walnut Publication
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9789355740519

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Women Migrant Workers: Issues and Challenges by Popy Devi Nath Pdf

Women’s labour migration is an important aspect of labour mobility and can be a crucial source of empowerment for women with women migrant workers making vital socio-economic contributions to their families and communities. This book is the outcome of the seminar sponsored by the NCW, New Delhi where 31 papers were presented, out of which 16 papers have been selected for this volume. This book throws light on the impacts of the covid-19 pandemic on women migrant workers, gendered sensitive migration and integration policies, adult migrants’ education: current challenges from a gender sensitive perspective, working life, social life and integration from a gender sensitive perspective, gendered norms and roles in migratory contexts, gender-based violence and migration, representations and constructions of migrant masculinities and femininities. This book will be useful to students, research scholars, teachers and policy makers.

Author : Glenda Tibe Bonifacio
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400728318

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Feminism and Migration by Glenda Tibe Bonifacio Pdf

Feminism and Migration: Cross-Cultural Engagements is a rich, original, and diverse collection on the intersections of feminism and migration in western and non-western contexts. This book explores the question: does migration empower women? Through wide-ranging topics on theorizing feminism in migration, contesting identities and agency, resistance and social justice, and religion for change, well-known and emerging scholars provide in-depth analysis of how social, cultural, political, and economic forces shape new modalities and perspectives among women upon migration. It highlights the centrality of the various meanings and interpretations of feminism(s) in the lives of immigrant and migrant women in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Eastern Europe, France, Greece, Japan, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Papua New Guinea, Spain, and the United States. The well-researched chapters explore the ways in which feminism and migration across cultures relate to women’s experiences in host societies --- as women, wives, mothers, exiles, nuns, and workers---and the avenues of interactions for change. Cross-cultural engagements point to the convergence and even disjunctures between (im)migrant and non-immigrant women that remain unrecognized in contemporary mainstream discourses on migration and feminism.

Author : Slavchevska, Vanya,Doss, Cheryl R.,Hillesland, Marya,Mane, Erdgin
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The impacts of rural outmigration on women’s empowerment: Evidence from Nepal, Senegal, and Tajikistan by Slavchevska, Vanya,Doss, Cheryl R.,Hillesland, Marya,Mane, Erdgin Pdf

Using primary survey data collected in Tajikistan, Nepal and Senegal, three countries with high male outmigration rates, this study analyzes the impacts of migration on the empowerment of women who remain in rural areas. The study uses indicators from the Abbreviate Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A-WEAI) to measure women’s empowerment in five domains (decision-making autonomy around agricultural production, resources, control over income, group membership and workload) and instrumental variable approaches to address the endogeneity between the migration of a family member and women’s empowerment. It finds that male outmigration leads to women’s empowerment in agriculture in some domains and disempowerment in others. In Tajikistan, where women start with low levels of empowerment, women in households with a migrant are more likely to be involved in decisions in productive activities on the household farm, control income, own assets and achieve workload balance than women in non-migrant households. In Nepal and Senegal, women start at higher levels of empowerment and we see fewer differences in their empowerment based on whether they live in a migrant-sending household. The impacts of migration on empowerment depend on the context, whether the household receives remittances or owns land, and women’s position within the household.

Author : Keiko Yamanaka,Nicola Piper,United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
Publisher : Geneva : UNRISD
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : East Asia
ISBN : 9290850647

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Feminized Migration in East and Southeast Asia by Keiko Yamanaka,Nicola Piper,United Nations Research Institute for Social Development Pdf

Author : Ton van Naerssen,Lothar Smith,Marianne H. Marchand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134778003

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Women, Gender, Remittances and Development in the Global South by Ton van Naerssen,Lothar Smith,Marianne H. Marchand Pdf

This book endeavours to take the conceptualisation of the relationship between transnational remittance exchanges and gender to a new level. Thus, inevitably, it provides a number of case studies of relationships between gender and remittances from around the world, highlighting different processes and practises. Thereby the authors seek to understand the impact of remittances on gender and gender relations, both at the sending as well as at the receiving end. For each case study authors ask how remittances affect gender identities and relationships but also vice versa. By itself this already adds a wealth of insights to a field that is remarkably understudied despite a volume of studies on gender and the feminization of migration in developing contexts. Chapters take an open, explorative approach to the relationship between gender and remittance behaviour with the aid of case studies focusing on transnational flows between migrants and countries of origin. With the wide variety of cases this book is able to provide conceptual insights to better understand how remittances affect gender identity, roles and relations (at both the receiving and sending end) and give specific attention to the roles of various actors directly and indirectly involved in remittance sending in current collectively organized remittance schemes from around the world.

Author : Christiane Timmerman,Maria Lucinda Fonseca,Lore Van Praag,Sónia Pereira
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789462701632

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Gender and Migration by Christiane Timmerman,Maria Lucinda Fonseca,Lore Van Praag,Sónia Pereira Pdf

The impact of gender on migration processes Considering the dynamic and reciprocal relationship between gender relations and migration, the contributions in this book approach migration dynamics from a gender-sensitive perspective. Bringing together insights from various fields of study, it is demonstrated how processes of social change occur differently in distinct life domains, over time, and across countries and/or regions, influencing the relationship between gender and migration. Detailed analysis by regions, countries, and types of migration reveals a strong variation regarding levels and features of female and male migration. This approach enables us to grasp the distinct ways in which gender roles, perceptions, and relations, each embedded in a particular cultural, geographical, and socioeconomic context, affect migration dynamics. Hence, this volume demonstrates that gender matters at each stage of the migration process. In its entirety, Gender and Migrationgives evidence of the unequivocal impact of gender and gendered structures, both at a micro and macro level, upon migrant’s lives and of migration on gender dynamics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Feminism
ISBN : LCCN:2005310956

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National Consultation on Empowering Migrant Women Workers of Nepal by Anonim Pdf

Proceedings of the Consultation on women migrant labor and feminism in Nepal held in Kathmandu in 2003.

Author : Muhammad Wajid Tahir
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030637354

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Responding to Women Migrant's Needs by Muhammad Wajid Tahir Pdf

This book examines gender- and integration-specific needs of women migrants by using a unique analytic framework, covering both qualitative and quantitative methods and techniques. Case studies from Sweden and Germany are presented, investigating how the gender and integration-neutral or integration-blind nature of the reviewed legislation can disadvantage migrant women in the labor market. The book contributes to the discourses of liberal and post-colonial feminism through new methodological and empirical insights. It, therefore, is a must-read for everybody interested in a better understanding of migrant women’s chances to enter the labor market, as well as gender and integration studies in general.

Author : S. Irudaya Rajan,N. Neetha
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429761768

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Migration, Gender and Care Economy by S. Irudaya Rajan,N. Neetha Pdf

This volume closely analyses women’s role and experiences in migration (internal and international) and its interlinkages with the care economy in their functions as nurses and paid domestic workers as well as unpaid carers. Bringing together case studies from across India and other parts of the world, the essays in the volume capture the characteristics and specificities of female migration in different settings — be it for economic or associational reasons, or as left behind members. The book also looks at gender-specific discriminations and vulnerabilities along with the empowering aspects of migration. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of migration, gender studies, sociology, and social anthropology, as well as development studies, demography, and economics.

Author : Anuja Agrawal
Publisher : SAGE Publishing India
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789352805181

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Migrant Women and Work by Anuja Agrawal Pdf

Papers presented at the International Conference on Women and Migration in Asia, held at New Delhi in December 2003.

Author : Franca Bimbi
Publisher : Alpha & Beta
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8872232139

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Agency of Migrant Women Against Gender Violence. Final Comparative Report of the Project Speak Out! by Franca Bimbi Pdf