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Gender and Migration Virtual Community Newsletter
Dear Members of the G & M Virtual Community,
In this newsletter I hope you’ll find many useful links and
resources. Please have a look at the news section to see the latest
videos, interviews, articles and reports in the gender &
migration area. There are also some new events in the migration field,
most have included at least a seminar or a workshop directly related
to gender and female migrants. Please, if you know about a local
workshop or conference related to gender &
migration, let us know! You can upload the event yourself – you need to
log in first - or send the link by e-mail and I’ll be happy to post it
for you. In the same way, institutional links are always welcome so
we can promote the work of your organization and share knowledge among
users.
In this issue you’ll also find a summary of our recent Virtual Discussion on “Migration, Remittances and Gender-Responsive Local Development”.
A very sincere thank you once again to all participants who posted a
comment and helped creating a very engaging forum. I hope these ideas
and recommendations can help us in creating future synergies, programmes
and research work. There’s much to be done! I’m looking forward to
organizing a new discussion with you soon. If you would like to suggest
a discussion theme and contribute with questions, please, send us a
brief message outlining your interests.
Thank you once again for your constant support!
Romina Iebra Aizpurúa
Administrator of the Gender & Migration Virtual Community
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News
Photo Essay: The Magnificent Migrants
The magazine Foreign Policy has published a photo exhibition entitled “The
Magnificent Migrants – Extraordinary photos of ordinary Mexicans”. The
photographs tell the stories of Mexican migrants struggling to live in the United States.
Gender-based violence among undocumented migrant women
The article "Undocumented Migrant Women: Gender-based violence in Europe’s fight against irregular migration", written by Eve Geddie (Acting Director of PICUM - Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrantshas) has been recently published in the magazine Choices (IPPF). Described
as “the most pervasive yet least recognised human rights abuse in the
world”, violence against women is a manifestation of gender-based
inequality and discrimination.
Migrant women in Ireland: Breaking the silence of genital mutilation
(Irishtimes.com) Greater awareness among healthcare workers in
Ireland is needed to help women who have undergone ‘female
circumcision’, writes Catherine Reilly. More than 2,500 migrant women
in Ireland are estimated to have suffered some form of female genital
mutilation (FGM) in their countries, according to AkiDwA, a national
network of African and migrant women.
Reforming America's Immigration Laws: A Woman's Struggle
While immigrant communities across the nation endure the long wait
for immigration reform, there are roughly 19 million immigrant women
and girls currently in the U.S. Immigrant women, particularly the
undocumented, are often more vulnerable than their male counterparts,
lack the same economic opportunities, and experience exploitation while
crossing the border, while working and even in their own homes. In
short, immigrant women have become the silent victims of a broken
immigration system.
Migrant mothers tempted to abandon babies in Moscow
(BBC News Europe) An increasing number of babies born to Central
Asian migrant workers are abandoned in Moscow maternity hospitals.
Diloram Ibrahimova, of the BBC's Central Asia and Caucasus Service,
meets some of those struggling to tackle this trend. When
a migrant woman who is here on her own gives birth she experiences a
psychological trauma... she has no other choice than to leave her baby
behind” says Rustam Tadjiev, a Moscow gynaecologist
Female migrants' isolation heightens HIV risk in Cambodia
(Panos London) Female garment workers in Cambodia who have migrated
to the capital are more exposed to a risk of HIV infection because of
the changes in their social and economic circumstances, a new report
claims. The report, published in this month's Women's Studies
International Forum journal, looks at the social and economic factors
that affect HIV rates among migrant Cambodian garment workers.
Government of Canada Helps Develop Leadership Skills Among Immigrant Women and Girls
Waterloo, Ontario - On behalf of the Honourable Rona Ambrose,
Minister of Public Works and Government Services and Minister for
Status of Women, Mr. Peter Braid, Member of Parliament
(Kitchener-Waterloo), today announced Government of Canada support for a
new project to help immigrant women and girls in the
Kitchener-Waterloo region.
Women refugee need better protection from violence
Caritas is highlighting the plight of three million women in long-term refugee crises on World Refugee Day, 20 June. Women
refugees are particularly vulnerable to human rights abuses in cases
where they’ve been forced to leave their homes for long-standing
periods. Caritas says the international community can do better in
protecting them from violence.
Fewer internal displacements in Africa
(Vafrol News) - While internal displacements continue to rise in the
world at large, Africa has seen a slow but marked decrease in the
number of internal "refugees" during the last decade. Africa has become more peaceful. This
is one of the conclusions in a 2001-09 overview of internally
displaced persons due to conflict and violence, made available to afrol
News today by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).
New Video: Refugee series
The experience of Sowda Hussen Mohamud, a refugee in South Africa.
Women News Network Video collection 22-year-old sports reporter Sowda
is a refugee from the war in Somalia, and lives in Mayfair,
Johannesburg, having fled her country after threats from extremists who
believe women should not be journalists. Women journalists face
numerous dangers in Somalia and countries in many other regions after
they release investigative reports.
Radio Interview: Migrant Domestic Workers in Ireland
Pat Kenny from Radio 1 interviews Anele Jakiel, a migrant worker from
Malawi and Siobhan O'Donoghue from the Migrants Rights Centre Ireland
on the Domestic Working Action Group and their demands for improving
the protection of migrant domestic workers in Ireland.
Mexico's Distressed-Migrant Visas Reach Few Women
Mexico City (Womensenews) Central
American female migrants seeking a better life in the United States
risk huge dangers as they pass through Mexico. Human rights researchers
say their chances of getting a humanitarian visa for what they suffer
are almost non-existent. When
Mexico decriminalized undocumented migration from the nations south of
its border through its country two years ago, it also started allowing
migrant victims of violence access to humanitarian visas.However, the
visas are rarely issued and the process is so slow it's nearly useless.
Europa tiene a 140.000 mujeres esclavizadas en la prostitución
La ONU cree que una de cada siete meretrices es víctima de redes de
trata - La mayoría procede de los Balcanes y sufre la violencia de
pequeñas bandas. Naciones Unidas
calcula que hay alrededor de 140.000 mujeres víctimas de la trata de
personas con fines de explotación sexual en Europa occidental. Son en
su mayoría mujeres y chicas que han sido engañadas, o incluso vendidas
por familiares o amigos en sus países de origen para ser prostituidas
bajo coacción en Alemania, Holanda o España.
Immigration is a Woman's Issue
(AWID) In the wake of the recent passing of the harsh anti-immigrant
law in Arizona, Gloria Steinem, writer, feminist organizer and
cofounder of the Women’s Media Center, and Pramila Jayapal, an
immigrant herself, and founder and executive director of OneAmerica, a
national organization that works for civil and human rights for
immigrants, consider the unique impact of immigration on women.
Doctoral research fellowships on return migration to Burundi and Iraq
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is
initiating a large project entitled Possibilities and realities of
return migration (PREMIG). As part of the project we are inviting
applications for two three-year doctoral researcher positions at PRIO. The
two positions are devoted to studying return migration to Burundi and
Iraq, respectively. Each study will draw upon fieldwork among migrants
in Norway and the United Kingdom, as well as in Burundi/Iraq. Within
the scope of the project's research questions, the doctoral candidates
will be able to develop their own interests and conduct independent
analysis.
Films on displacement
IRIN Films: Forced to Flee: These two documentaries filmed by the Integrated
Regional Information Networks (IRIN)tell the story of two very
different displaced communities, one in DRC and the other in the
Philippines, and the daunting challenges they both face.
Hivos Knowledge Programme
An academic-practitioner cooperation to strengthen Civil Society Building efforts.
International cooperation is in need of more knowledge to make a
difference. To tackle complex problems such as the rise of
fundamentalist movements and to innovate the sector needs to invest in
the development, deepening, dissemination and application of knowledge.
The Knowledge Programme is a practitioner-academic collaboration aimed
at developing knowledge on issues imperative to the work of civil
society organisations (CSOs) and the development sector at large. To
achieve its goals Hivos works closely with CSOs and academic centres
worldwide.
Inequality and Internal Migration in China
This research paper, written by Wei Ha,Junjian Yi and Junsen Zhang,
analyzes the impact of rural-to-urban migration on income inequality
and gender wage gap in source regions using a newly constructed panel
dataset for around 100 villages over a ten-year period from 1997 to 2006
in China. The researchers found a pattern between migration and income inequality in the sending communities.
Ni Une ni Deux: Contre la violence aux femmes étrangères
La Cimade a organisé l'inauguration d'un commissariat modèle dans
l'acceuil et la protection des femmes étrangères victimes de violences.
Depuis février en effet, l'association mène campagne pour sensibiliser
le public mais aussi les acteurs sociaux et politiques à la situation
parfois inextricable dans laquelle se retrouvent les femmes étrangères
victimes de violences.
Events Call for Papers & Proposals
Opinion
Between the 31 May and 25 June 2010 the Gender & Migration Virtual Community successfully hosted the III Virtual Discussion: “Migration, Remittances and Gender-Responsive Local Development”.
Please, click here to read the discussion summary, where you can find a review of the key points discussed, an outline of the main ideas &
policy recommendations, and a list of participants’ contact details.
Thank you to all of you for creating such an inspiring e-discussion! I hope it was useful and interesting to you all.
Featured Publications
Identity Processes and Dynamics in Multi-Ethnic Europe(Amsterdam University Press)
Edited by Charles Westin, José Bastos, Janine Dahinden and Pedro
Góis. Globalisation, migration and integration have shaken up identity
processes and identity dynamics as never before. But in a post
colonial, multi-ethnic Europe, what is identity? How is it constructed?
This book endeavours to answer these questions and more. Eleven of the
thirteen chapters present empirical case studies from the Basque
Country, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Portugal –
thus resulting in one of the first international volumes to highlight
Portugal’s diverse and complex migration flows. Transnationalism also
takes centre stage in several contributions that survey various types
of informal and formal networks in local communities and across
national borders. Via American studies, anthropology, cultural studies,
ethnology, history, social psychology and sociology, the authors come
from an array of disciplines as dynamic as the continent about which
they write.
Report examines violence against immigrant women in Canada
(Frontier Centre for Public Policy) A new report calls on Canadians to confront the abuse faced by many women in immigrant communities. The
Frontier Centre for Public Policy today released Culturally-Driven
Violence Against Women: A growing problem in Canada’s immigrant
communities. The report, written by Aruna Papp, M.Ed., M.A., a
Toronto-based social worker who deals with domestic violence, focuses on
the growing problem of the abuse of girls and women in Canada’s
immigrant communities.
Report on Healthcare for the Uninsured and Undocumented
This report summarizes the main findings and policy implications from the eight concurrent sessions which took place in the February 2010 Research Conference on Healthcare for the Uninsured and Undocumented. Ontario
is seen to have a high-quality health system, free and accessible to
all. However, significant numbers of people do not have OHIP cards or
health insurance for various reasons and face major barriers to
accessing the healthcare they need.
IOM's Gender & Migration Bulletin: Focus on care, domestic work & trafficking
The IOM Gender Issues Coordination (GIC) has recently published the latest issue of the Gender and Migration News Bulletin. This issue features, among other themes: Migration for Domestic Work, The Case of Domestic Workers in Costa Rica, Lebanon: Fair Deal for Domestic Workers?, Bolivia: Women’s Remittances Come at High Cost, Bangladesh: Examining the Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on Female Migrants, Honduras: IOM Study Recommends Greater Focus on Adult Female Victims of Trafficking, Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation of Boys and Male Adolescents in Central America, Forced Marriage in the Sierra Leone Civil War: Beyond Sexual Exploitation, Skilled Female Migrant Care Workers Negotiating the 4th Shift.
Informe sobre Tráfico de Personas 2010
Colombia, único país en la región que lucha contra el tráfico de personas.
El Departamento de Estado de EE.UU. indico, en su informe, que Cuba
y República Dominicana no cumplen con los mínimos niveles en la lucha
contra el tráfico de personas, según un informe del Departamento de
Estado de EE.UU. que coloca a Colombia como el único país de la región
que los cumple. El
informe sobre Tráfico de Personas 2010' estudia la situación de 177
países y este año por primera vez se ha incluido a Estados Unidos
utilizando los mismos parámetros que para el resto de naciones.
UNFPA's Annual Report 2009
UNFPA's Annual Report 2009 provides an overview of achievements last
year in saving mothers’ lives, planning families, preventing HIV
infections and promoting the rights of women and girls. The report also
highlights initiatives to address gender-based violence, to assist
pregnant women in humanitarian emergencies and to bolster efforts to
achieve the Millennium Development Goals. UNFPA, from its headquarters
in New York and a global network of 129 offices, supported the
development priorities of 155 countries, territories and areas in 2009.
Income totaled $783.1 million, including $469.4 million in voluntary
contributions from governments and private donors.
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