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Protecting the Rights of Women Migrant Domestic Workers: Structural Violence and Competing Interests in the Philippines and Sri Lanka book cover

1st Edition

Protecting the Rights of Women Migrant Domestic Workers Structural Violence and Competing Interests in the Philippines and Sri Lanka

By Sophie Henderson Copyright 2022
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge
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Migrant women across Asia disproportionately work in precarious, insecure, and informal employment sectors that are subject to few regulations, pay low wages, and expose women to harm, of which domestic work is among the most prevalent. This book uses the cases of the Philippines and Sri Lanka to develop a comprehensive, intersectional, rights-based approach to better protect women migrant... Read more

Introduction

1. Structural Violence and the Role of the Labour-Sending State in International Migration

2. The Philippines and Sri Lanka: Becoming Emigration States

3. International Legal Framework: Rights-Based Intersectional Approach

4. Regional Consultative Mechanisms on Migration and the Role of Civil Society Organisations

5. Pre-Departure: Protected or Put in Harm’s Way?

6. Overseas Employment: Beyond the Reach of the Sending State?

7. The Realities of Return Migration: Social and Economic Reintegration

Conclusion

Biography

Sophie Henderson is a researcher within the Country Research Unit at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, New Zealand. She completed her Ph.D in International Migration and Human Rights Law at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her research interests revolve around global and regional governance of temporary labour migration and women migrants’ human and labour rights, with an empirical focus on the Indo-Pacific region.

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