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Title: The feminist perspective on gender in international labor migration

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Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: International migrations are tied to various discriminatory social structures, charac- terized by social class, ethnicity, age, nationality; this article addresses women who are also affected by conditions of gender inequality. The aim in contributing to the debate is to question the androcentric and sexist social perception that, empirically or theoretically, masks their pre- sence or places women in a subsidiary position and under the domination of men. The femini- zation of international labor migration is an essential characteristic of the singularities that are found in migration dynamics, through the capitalist restructuring that developed in the last two decades of the 20th Century and that in the contemporary period stems from the 2008 crisis, the hardening of anti-migratory policies and populist xenophobia, which exhibit no alleviation. This is the context of today's broad migratory system that encompasses the United States and Latin American men and women.

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Authors: Dávila, Genoveva, R

Publisher: Investigadora del Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas de la unam

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

Countries: United States