Women Migrant Workers

Author : Zahra Meghani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317387640

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Women Migrant Workers by Zahra Meghani Pdf

This volume makes the case for the fair treatment of female migrant workers from the global South who are employed in wealthy liberal democracies as care workers, domestic workers, home health workers, and farm workers. An international panel of contributors provide analyses of the ethical, political, and legal harms suffered by female migrant workers, based on empirical data and case studies, along with original and sophisticated analyses of the complex of systemic, structural factors responsible for the harms experienced by women migrant workers. The book also proposes realistic and original solutions to the problem of the unjust treatment of women migrant workers, such as social security systems that are transnational and tailored to meet the particular needs of different groups of international migrant workers.

Author : Zahra Meghani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317387657

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Women Migrant Workers by Zahra Meghani Pdf

This volume makes the case for the fair treatment of female migrant workers from the global South who are employed in wealthy liberal democracies as care workers, domestic workers, home health workers, and farm workers. An international panel of contributors provide analyses of the ethical, political, and legal harms suffered by female migrant workers, based on empirical data and case studies, along with original and sophisticated analyses of the complex of systemic, structural factors responsible for the harms experienced by women migrant workers. The book also proposes realistic and original solutions to the problem of the unjust treatment of women migrant workers, such as social security systems that are transnational and tailored to meet the particular needs of different groups of international migrant workers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Anuja Agrawal
Publisher : SAGE Publishing India
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Sophie Henderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000539691

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Protecting the Rights of Women Migrant Domestic Workers by Sophie Henderson Pdf

Migrant women across Asia disproportionately work in precarious, insecure, and informal employment sectors that are subject to few regulations, pay low wages, and expose women to harm, of which domestic work is among the most prevalent. This book uses the cases of the Philippines and Sri Lanka to develop a comprehensive, intersectional, rights-based approach to better protect women migrant domestic workers against exploitation. As accounts of exploitation, gender-based violence, torture, and death among migrant domestic workers increase, the recognition and defence of their human and labour rights is an urgent necessity. The Philippines and Sri Lanka are two of the leading labour-sending states of women domestic workers in Asia, and their economies have become increasingly dependent on the remittances they send back home. Drawing on extensive original research this book argues that these two sending states are guilty of structural violence by sustaining a network of institutions, policies and practices, which serve to systematically disadvantage and discriminate against women migrant domestic workers. The research covers the entire migration process, from pre-departure, through to overseas employment, followed by return and reintegration. This book’s innovative application of structural violence theory as a way to investigate the role of state institutions in labour-sending countries in the Global South will be of interest to researchers from across the fields of migration studies, gender studies, human rights law, and Asian Studies.

Author : Popy Devi Nath
Publisher : Walnut Publication
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Leah Briones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : United Nations
Publisher : UN
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCLA:L0108507328

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Crushed Hopes by United Nations Pdf

This report is a collective publication comprising a review of international literature on the subject of migrant deskilling and underemployment from a gender perspective and three empirical case studies from Switzerland, Canada and the United Kingdom. It explores the disproportionate difficulties skilled migrant women can face in transferring their skills and finding employment commensurate with their education when relocating to a new country. The case studies highlight situations in which migratory status and labour market dynamics can combine to constrain skilled and highly skilled migrant women to low-skilled occupations despite their often high human capital. They also analyse the impact that such occupational downgrading can have on migrant women's well-being and the strategies that women can adopt to regain a professional status.

Author : Errol Mendes,Sakunthala Srighanthan
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780776617800

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Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China by Errol Mendes,Sakunthala Srighanthan Pdf

Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China focuses on the most challenging areas of discrimination and inequality in China, including discrimination faced by HIV/AIDS afflicted individuals, rural populations, migrant workers, women, people with disabilities, and ethnic minorities. The Canadian contributors offer rich regional, national, and international perspectives on how constitutions, laws, policies, and practices, both in Canada and in other parts of the world, battle discrimination and the conflicts that rise out of it. The Chinese contributors include some of the most independent-minded scholars and practitioners in China. Their assessments of the challenges facing China in the areas of discrimination and inequality not only attest to their personal courage and intellectual freedom but also add an important perspective on this emerging superpower.

Author : Tasneem Siddiqui,Myrtle Perera
Publisher : International Org. for Migration
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822031378763

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Temporary Labour Migration of Women by Tasneem Siddiqui,Myrtle Perera Pdf

In some regions there has been a trend for women to migrate to other countries to improve the socio-economic position of the family they leave behind. This publication contains two studies, in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, which try to examine the impact of such migrations, both on the women themselves and their families

Author : Nicole Constable
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520282025

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Born Out of Place by Nicole Constable Pdf

Hong Kong is a meeting place for migrant domestic workers, traders, refugees, asylum seekers, tourists, businessmen, and local residents. In Born Out of Place, Nicole Constable looks at the experiences of Indonesian and Filipina women in this Asian world city. Giving voice to the stories of these migrant mothers, their South Asian, African, Chinese, and Western expatriate partners, and their Hong Kong–born babies, Constable raises a serious question: Do we regard migrants as people, or just as temporary workers? This accessible ethnography provides insight into global problems of mobility, family, and citizenship and points to the consequences, creative responses, melodramas, and tragedies of labor and migration policies.

Author : ElDidi, Hagar,van Biljon, Chloe,Alvi, Muzna Fatima,Ringler, Claudia,Ratna, Nazmun,Abdulrahim, Sawsan,Kilby, Patrick,Wu, Joyce,Choudhury, Zahid ul Arefin
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Reducing vulnerability to forced labor and trafficking of short-term, low-skilled women migrant workers in the South Asia to Middle East corridor by ElDidi, Hagar,van Biljon, Chloe,Alvi, Muzna Fatima,Ringler, Claudia,Ratna, Nazmun,Abdulrahim, Sawsan,Kilby, Patrick,Wu, Joyce,Choudhury, Zahid ul Arefin Pdf

Millions of female migrants experience various forms of exploitative and unsafe conditions when migrating for employment and income generation, both in countries of origin and in destination countries. Vulnerabilities increased further due to the Covid-19 pandemic, causing income and job losses, entrapment in countries of destination without financial or social support and stigmatization upon return. One of the key migration routes travelled by millions of migrants is from South Asia to the Middle East. We examine this migration route for low-skilled female migrant workers highlighting the impacts of interventions along the migration pathway to determine the effectiveness of alternative mechanisms for reducing forced labour and trafficking. We draw lessons from the literature as well as from interviews with key informants in the field, including academics, development partners, NGO workers, and policymakers, to identify promising interventions that successfully reduce the vulnerability of women migrants. We find that, while Covid-19 has increased migrant vulnerability, it has also exposed the current system’s violations in facilitating trafficking and exacerbating poor working conditions.

Author : Dr. S. Sundari
Publisher : Deep and Deep Publications
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015073603162

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Migrant Women and Urban Labour Market by Dr. S. Sundari Pdf

With reference to Madras, Coimbatore, and Tiruppur cities of India.

Author : Nicola Piper,Mina Roces
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780585463810

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Wife or Worker? by Nicola Piper,Mina Roces Pdf

This volume challenges the dominant discourse that perceives Asian women as either "mail-order" brides or overseas workers. Providing the first sustained critique of the artificial analytical division between brides and workers, the book demonstrates women's transition from brides to workers and from workers to brides. Focusing on how women workers use marriage as a strategy to gain citizenship and how migrants for marriage become workers, the authors present these modern Asian women in their multidimensional roles as wives, workers, mothers, and citizens.

Author : Zhou Xiaojing,Zheng Xiaoqiong
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498580649

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Migrant Ecologies by Zhou Xiaojing,Zheng Xiaoqiong Pdf

Migrant Ecologies investigates the ways in which Zheng Xiaoqiong’s poetry exposes the entanglements of migrant ecologies embedded within local and global networks of capital and labor. The author contends that women migrant workers in particular, as portrayed in Zheng’s poems, are the visible manifestation of the interconnections between the so-called “factories of the world” and slum villages-in-the-city, between urban development and rural decline, and between the local environmental degradation and the global market. By adopting an ecological approach to Zheng’s poems about women migrant workers in China, the author explores what Donna Haraway calls “webbed ecologies” (49). The concept of “ecologies” serves to enhance not only the layered, complex interconnections underlying women migrant workers’ plight and environmental degradation in China, but also the emergence and transformation of migrant spaces, subjects, activism, and networks resulting in part from globalization.