Women Migrant Workers

Women Migrant Workers
Author: Zahra Meghani
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2015-10-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317387643

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.

Migrant Women and Work

Migrant Women and Work
Author: Anuja Agrawal
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2006-05-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780761934578

This volume is focused on Asian women who migrate either globally or across the Asian continent or within their respective countries in order to seek work. The contributors cover a broad terrain of issues including the changing gender composition of migration streams; the motivations of individual migrants; the different outcomes of male and female migration; and discernible patterns in the migration of women.

The Human Rights of Migrants

The Human Rights of Migrants
Author: Reginald Thomas Appleyard
Publisher: International Org. for Migration
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2001
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Includes statistics.

Women Migrant Workers: Issues and Challenges

Women Migrant Workers: Issues and Challenges
Author: Popy Devi Nath
Publisher: Walnut Publication
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2021-10-26
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9355740514

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.

Born Out of Place

Born Out of Place
Author: Nicole Constable
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2014-03-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520957776

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.

ILO Global Estimates on International Migrant Workers

ILO Global Estimates on International Migrant Workers
Author: Natalia Popova (Labor economist)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Emigration and immigration
ISBN: 9789221326717

If the right policies are in place, labour migration can help countries respond to shifts in labour supply and demand, stimulate innovation and sustainable development, and transfer and update skills. However, a lack of international standards regarding concepts, definitions and methodologies for measuring labour migration data still needs to be addressed. This report gives global and regional estimates, broken down by income group, gender and age. It also describes the data, sources and methodology used, as well as the corresponding limitations. The report seeks to contribute to the 2018 Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and to achieving SDG targets 8.8 and 10.7

Migrant Workers

Migrant Workers
Author: Qingwen Xu
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2016
Genre: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN: 9781634853019

Worldwide labor migration has transformed and reshaped various fields of government policy and professional practices. Labor migration is associated with the non-economic social phenomena that scholars have increasingly paid attention to in both sending and receiving destinations. For practitioners in the field of education, medicine, nursing, social work, mental health, public health, and other professional practices, the human face of labor migration -- migrant workers' and their families' daily challenges -- often reveals the human cost of migration behind the image of economic gain and benefits. Migrant workers and their families are facing vexing challenges ranging from basic needs to psychosocial well-being, despite who they are and where they come from. Traditional ways of thinking and knowing cannot address these challenges adequately; rather, established divisions of professions, systems, disciplines, and/or areas of practice might just be the factor that constrains the ability to clearly articulate compelling problems and adds an additional layer of complexity to problem solving. This book focuses on country policies and practices, and draws on theoretical ideas that provide the intellectual basis. In addition, it offers vivid examples of how migrant workers manage to work, pursue economic security, strive and adjust in new communities, define and negotiate self and identity, and seek health and well-being. While the book illuminates shared challenges and experiences for each group of migrant workers (i.e. low-skilled workers, internal migrants and other types of migrating laborers), it also synthesizes the intersectionality across all migrant workers, as they remain committed to bettering the lives of their families and communities in their origin countries as well as new host countries and communities. This volume reflects the efforts of interdisciplinary research and collaboration. Based on empirical studies and policy analysis, the researchers draw broader implications for evidence-based practice and policy in migration studies, and offer practical suggestions for policy and service delivery design, including formal and informal mechanisms of support which can inform the professional reader.

Matching Economic Migration with Labour Market Needs

Matching Economic Migration with Labour Market Needs
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2014-09-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9264216502

This publication gathers the papers presented at the “OECD-EU dialogue on mobility and international migration: matching economic migration with labour market needs” (Brussels, 24-25 February 2014), a conference jointly organised by the European Commission and the OECD.