Women's labor migration in the context of globalisation
- Document number
- 2531
- Date
- 2010
- Title
- Women's labor migration in the context of globalisation
- Author/publisher
- WIDE
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Summary
- The fact that women migrate practically as much as men is no longer a new trend. However the recognicion of this fact has only just started to spread.
In this report WIDE try to show how Women's labor migration is affected buy globalisation and how it is problematic to have a worldwide development that forges migration, counteracted by national legislation that aims at restricting and preventing migration:
"The report Women's labour migration in the context of globalisation offers an introduction to important contemporary political analysis on the influence of globalisation on women’s work, mobility and empowerment. It explains that globalisation shapes women’s labour migration to a great extent. Global shifts in international trade and investment have had a significant impact on the geographical distribution and mobility of the workforce within and between countries. In recent decades we have witnessed a dramatic increase in international trade and investment globally. Alongside this, international and internal migration has increased. Today, large Transnational Corporations (TNCs) drive and control the production and trade of goods and services and technological development all over the world. Their activities have major impacts on regions, countries, communities and people in most of the world. Factories are closed and reopened in new areas or countries, natural resources and common goods are privatised, traditional knowledge is patented, agricultural production is ‘modernised’ through export orientation, and labour is exploited in both the formal and informal economies".
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