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Feminized Migration in East and Southeast Asia: Policies, Actions and Empowerment

Author : Keiko Yamanaka, Nicola Piper | 2005
Published By: UN Research Institute for Social Development

Feminized migration has increased inequality and injustice based on gender, class and nationality in Asia. It has also, however, opened up opportunities for migrant women to increase family incomes and for Asia’s growing civil society to challenge oppressive policies and practices affecting migrants. Although many legal and institutional barriers to social justice remain in labour-importing countries, civil actions by citizens and migrants comprise significant steps toward the realization of migrant workers’rights.

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