Empowering Migrant Women

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Empowering Migrant Women

Why Agency and Rights are not Enough

Development studies Migration, immigration and emigration Sociology: work and labour

Author: Leah Briones

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Collection: Gender in a Global/Local World

Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 2nd March 2017

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 2 Mb

ISBN: 9781317144151


Overview

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.

Context and Significance

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.

Intended Audience

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.

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