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This chapter provides concluding reflections from a set of nineteen case studies of transnational... more This chapter provides concluding reflections from a set of nineteen case studies of transnational and intranational migration and mobility. It contrasts the 'sedentary bias' present in policy regimes and associated thought centred on nation-states, where movement is seen as exceptional, including normatively exceptional, with the centrality of movement in the processes of socioeconomic change and evolution, particularly those promoted under capitalist systems of economic organization. While market capitalist and nation-state principles of organization differ, they combine in hybrid systems, such as those currently being elaborated in policy regimes for temporary migrant workers, to exploit migrant labour. Many of these arrangements mirror the indentured labour regimes of earlier eras. The chapter presents by contrast a perspective based on principles of human rights and human security that uses a global framework both for understanding and for evaluation and then adds an explicit gender-aware enrichment of that perspective, in order to do justice to the special vulnerabilities and exploitation of women's migrant labour. A human security perspective, in particular, helps to base concern for human rights in an awareness of bodily and emotional needs, of global interconnections, and of the intersecting circumstances in people's everyday lives; but it requires, and lends itself to, gender-enrichment through partnership with insights from feminist theory, as illustrated in the book's various case studies. The systems of the nation-state, market capitalism, and gender power that are discussed in this chapter, that structure the experiences of migrant women workers, are very deeply established. The chapter suggests directions for possible recognition , to reduce and counter the invisibility and misframing of migration, and of women and their work; it also suggests priority areas for research and networking following the format employed for the book: linking researchers, policy practitioners and migrant advocates, South-South-North.

ISS Working Papers- …, 2008

Two authors who have been leaders of the Â'social quality approachÂ' that emerged in Eu... more Two authors who have been leaders of the Â'social quality approachÂ' that emerged in European social policy circles in the 1990s, and two authors who have worked with the Â'human developmentÂ' and Â'human securityÂ' approaches that emerged in international ...

International Journal of Social Quality, 2011

ISS Working Paper Series/General Series, 2001

The Institute of Social Studies is Europe's longest-established centre of higher education a... more The Institute of Social Studies is Europe's longest-established centre of higher education and research in development studies. Post-graduate teaching programmes range from six-week diploma courses to the PhD programme. Research at ISS is fundamental in the sense of ...

Women's social rights in Vietnam have been inscribed in the constitution since 1946 and ensured b... more Women's social rights in Vietnam have been inscribed in the constitution since 1946 and ensured by a number legal codes as well as state efforts to introduce a 'working mother' gender contract at various stages of national development policy. Since liberalisation policy was introduced in 1986, a clear shift of the terms of this contract has emerged, by which more emphasis is given to a combination household production and motherhood as an efficient means to respond to care needs, and less attention is given to subsidized care services. A major implication of this shift for social policy is the changing ethical norm of care that hinges itself on women's private virtue rather than state duty. Honouring the 'working mother' gender contract in an era of global competition-in which lean production through small units remains a key generator of women's employment-would require new thinking and bargaining methods on the gender of care and social policy. The contributions of the Vietnam Women's Union remain crucial in defending women's social citizenship.

This policy brief has been prepared within the IDRC sponsored project 'Migration, Gender and Soci... more This policy brief has been prepared within the IDRC sponsored project 'Migration, Gender and Social Justice'

of her Time 3.4.2 Mina, A Strong Woman and Her Unselfish Love 3.4.3 Nena, A Young Woman with Conv... more of her Time 3.4.2 Mina, A Strong Woman and Her Unselfish Love 3.4.3 Nena, A Young Woman with Convictions Chapter 4 Analysis and Discussions 4.1 Problems Confronted by Undocumented Migrant Domestic Workers 4.1.1 Abuse in the Work Place 4.1.2 Emotional Burden 4.1.3 Shelter 4.1.4 Health Care 4.2 Ways of Coping 4.2.1 Faith Related 4.2.2 Behavioural 4.2.3 Cognitive Reframing 4.2.4 In Solidarity with Other Filipino Migrants 4.3 The Effects of Female Migration to the Philippines Society 4.4 The Issues of Care in the Netherlands and the Undocumented Filipina Migrants 4.5 Migrants Women's Notion of Empowerment and Agency Chapter 5 Conclusions and Recommendation References Appendix: Questionnaire The invisibility of domestic work, the absence of the social obligations of the host country, the lack of protection from the home country and the strict and harsh migration policies of the Netherlands compound the vulnerability and insecurity of undocumented Filipina migrant domestic workers.

M any aspects of human traffi cking remain poorly understood even though it is now a priority iss... more M any aspects of human traffi cking remain poorly understood even though it is now a priority issue for many governments. Information available about the magnitude of the problem is limited. While the existing body of knowledge about human traffi cking serves for raising public consciousness about the issue it is still not rigorous enough to lend support to comprehensive programmes for action which addresses the different dimensions of the problem. Knowledge about the intersection between migration and traffi cking has not yet brought about any consensus on the underlying forces and their implications for the wellbeing of children and women. The diversity of forms of human mobility in the contemporary context of global linkages requires an analytical approach which can explain why the needs of the constituents of social structures (gender, class, generation and ethnicity) and human agency have converged to produce what is known as human traffi cking. Without adequate explanation, po...

This policy brief is adapted from a chapter authored by Codou Bop and Thanh-Dam Truong, 'Complexi... more This policy brief is adapted from a chapter authored by Codou Bop and Thanh-Dam Truong, 'Complexity of Gender and Age in Precarious Lives: Malian Men, Women and Girls in Communities of Blind Beggars in Senegal' in Truong, et al. (eds) (2013) Migration, Gender and Social Justice: Perspectives on Human Security (Heidelberg: Springer). The chapter and brief were prepared within the IDRC-sponsored project 'Migration, Gender and Social Justice', and are based on research undertaken by the Groupe de Recherche sur les Femmes et les Lois au Senegal (GREFELS). The research team consisted of:

Journal of Refugee Studies, 1993

Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, 2013

Paris: United Nations Educational, …, 2005

... and the Caribbean Teresa Valdes 29 Chapter 3. Gender Equality and Women's Participat... more ... and the Caribbean Teresa Valdes 29 Chapter 3. Gender Equality and Women's Participation in Japan: A Synthesis Karen Mokate and ... to Empowerment in Argentina Marcela Chiarotti 165 Chapter 9. Young Women's Leadership: The CAFRA Experience in Trinidad and Tobago ...

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, 2018

The discourse on poverty emerged in the context of capitalist industrialization and political deb... more The discourse on poverty emerged in the context of capitalist industrialization and political debates on pauperism, and more specifically with the introduction of the Poor Laws whose principles on welfare and relief were firmly based on the idea of forging a system of wage labor concentrated on the male breadwinner. A major implication was the significant place occupied by the nuclear family in the field of poverty as welfare studies. Since the 1980s, feminists have made significant contribution to poverty knowledge by engaging with debates on gender, poverty, and social justice. The feminist critique of poverty knowledge formed part of a broader challenge to the androcentric and culturally specific assumptions of mainstream knowledge systems. In this context, Amartya Sen’s capability approach has been a major influence. Feminists introduced new conceptions of poverty that broaden the definition of poverty from basic needs to functionings, capabilities, assets, and livelihoods and a...

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 1996

This paper aims to contribute to the development of an analytical framework that provides the spa... more This paper aims to contribute to the development of an analytical framework that provides the space for the understanding of female migrants as reproductive workers in a cross-national transfer of labor. It will first provide some hypothetical guidelines for the explanation of female migration in the context of reproductive labor. Based on accessible data, a discussion on the case of Japan will be presented to highlight the main issues and problems concerning female migrants as reproductive workers. Finally, implications on policy-making and networking at the international and national level will be analyzed and discussed, taking into account the specific ideological, political and socio-economic constraints.