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African Women’s Health Center for Immigrant and Refugee Women
In this week’s blog post, I’m going to focus on the intersection between FGM and immigrant women in the United States. In class, we mostly discussed the cultural practice of FGM abroad in countries like Kenya. However, the practice is still used among immigrant women in the United States. According to analysis from the 2000 [...]
South African Union Building and Migrant Domestic Workers
Previously this quarter, my blogs have focused on the challenges that migrant women face abroad. We have seen how migrant women are susceptible to labor rights violations; sexual, physical, and verbal abuse; lack of worker’s compensation; exploitation; and loss of power in another country. Given that a majority of migrant women are employed as domestic [...]
Migrant Women and Arizona Immigration Detention
In my previous blogs, I have focused on the international experiences of migrant women that work in reproductive labor, which is “the labor needed to sustain the productive labor force.”4 This week, I will shift my topic toward detained migrant women in the United States. Currently, immigration detention is the fastest form of incarceration in [...]
South Asian Migrant Women in the Middle East
“I was not paid for one-and-a-half years, they tried to kill me, then I fled to the embassy,” says a woman. In Olaya Detention Center in Saudi Arabia, migrant women plead to be taken back to their homes in South Asia. One woman describes the “wounds and scars on her hands, neck, and legs. [Her [...]
Rural to Urban: Migrant Women in China
When thinking about migration, we often imagine international borders and security check points across empty landscapes with stark fences. However, another form of migration takes place within the country itself, especially from rural to urban areas. In the United States, we have experienced several waves of this migration. For example, the Great Migration lasted from [...]
Migrant Women and Domestic Work in Chile
During the fall of my junior year, I studied abroad in Santiago, Chile in order to learn more about a country that has made significant economic gains yet faces extreme income inequality. Although Chile boasts a copper industry and rapid modernization, the country still deals with deep disparities between the rich and the poor that [...]
Crossing Borders: Migrant Women and the Continued Denial of Human Rights
When we hear the harsh reality that 48% of women are illiterate as opposed to 25% of men, it often stirs us to think of the unique challenges in the developing world.[i] Women in third world countries are associated with domestic work and violence in their role as the least respected family member. On a [...]
Migrant Women from Africa in Europe