Empowering Migrant Women (Gender in a Global/Local World)

Empowering Migrant Women breaks through the polarised thinking and migration-centric policy action on the protection of migrant women domestic workers from abuse. Using insights from Filipina experiences of domestic work across Paris and Hong Kong, Briones shows why current protective measures continue to victimise rather than empower migrant women,-The book's discussion on the inadequacy of an agency and rights-based approach to protection is as compelling as its recommendation to focus efforts on the migrant's capability to secure a livelihood in the global political economy. The analysis presented is instrumental in making the problem of migrant women workers' empowerment both a migration and development agenda. An informative text for social science students and bureaucrats as well as non-governmental political activists interested in the protection of the rights and livelihoods of migrants. This volume is essential reading for migration and feminist scholars who have yet to adopt the contribution of critical development studies in the analysis of low-skilled female labour migration. Book jacket.

• | Author: Leah Briones
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jun 30, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 252 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0367605619
• | ISBN-13: 9780367605612