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Preventing Discrimination, Exploitation and Abuse of Women Migrant Workers - An Information Guide: Booklet 4. Working and Living Abroad

Document number
1517
Date
undated
Title
Preventing Discrimination, Exploitation and Abuse of Women Migrant Workers - An Information Guide: Booklet 4. Working and Living Abroad
Author/publisher
Gender Promotion Programme, International Labour Office (ILO)
Availability
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Document type(s)
Training Material/Resources,
Keywords
Women's rights; Women; Control and regulation of prostitution, Protection, Punishable forms of prostitution, Migrant rights; Migration management; Comprehensive approach to migration; Migration policy; Irregular Migration, Feminization of migration, Economic migration, Labour migration, Free movement, Undocumented migrants; Undocumented labour;
Summary
This paper raises awareness of the working and living conditions of women migrants in the destination countries, and provides guidelines on how to improve their situation and especially to prevent and redress cases of violation of their basic rights and to also ease their adjustment and integration. It shows that where women migrant workers are organized and have networks of information and social support, exploitation is much less likely to occur. The focus is on migrant domestic workers who are among the most vulnerable to exploitation and abuse and because domestic work is the single largest employment category for women migrants
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