Empowering Migrant Women: Why Agency and Rights are not Enough (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780754675327)

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: Leah Briones
ISBN-10: 0754675327
ISBN-13: 9780754675327
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 03/28/2009
Pages: 252
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d