A Causal Relationship Between State Citizenship Law And Human Rights Violation Of Female Migrant Workers

The phrase “feminization of migration” can be defined with a statistic from "Introduction” in Global Woman: “In 1946, women were fewer than 3 percent of the Algerians and Moroccans living in France; by 1990, they were more than 40 percent.” (Ehrenreich and Hochschild, 5). This statistic demonstrates the growth of women migrating over less than 50 years. The amount of women, in this example, from Algeria and Morocco who moved to France escalated because of the increase in need of domestic workers. Although both men and women migrate, their work is different. The traditional stereotype of the woman reflects the occupation she finds as a migrant worker – a nanny, maid, or sex worker. When men migrate, “they performed more varied types of work,

The book’s purpose is to give an in-depth description of women 's role in various aspects of society, such as legal position, and position in

According to Farhad Kazemi article in the Iran Chamber Society, an important difference between the Islamic world and the West in regard to citizenship rights is how these rights are formally categorized. In the West, non-gender-based citizenship is the norm, even though in practice, full and complete citizenship rights and equality are not always the case. In the Islamic world, however, the norm is to grant different categories of people different citizenship rights. Hence, women and religious minorities enjoy a different category of citizenship rights than males and Muslims.

Women in Mexico endure unbelievable hardships all due to their gender. Mexican women are faced with inescapable gender roles that cast females into cruel and subservient positions. Women are treated as second tier to their male counterparts and are commonly treated as subhuman. While men are capable of doing as they want, when and where they please; women have strict duties that must be followed to keep her husband and sons happy. “The macho male is not expected to become involved in child rearing, considered to be a woman’s task” (Deyoung, 1994). Unfortunately, it is all to common that when a women speaks out of term or upsets her husband, cruel and violent outburst occur. This abuse is widely accepted in Mexico, and little is done to prevent domestic violence. Women in Mexico live every day under house arrest, exist in fear of their male superiors. Fortunately in 1970 women began to fight back, and the Mexican feminist movement began. However, unlick the United States female revolution this feminist movement was quite and slow. Nonetheless the percentages of women in the work for began to rise dramatically and domestic abuse took a small step back. The women of Mexico today are still relentlessly fighting for equality. The gender roles cast upon women, men and the abuse women endure due to these gender roles cast upon them are all instrumental steps in the advancement of women’s rights in Mexico.

The Journal, “Cultural Relativist and Feminist Critiques of International Human Rights – Friends or Foes?, by Oonagh Reitman seeks to address about the similarities between two critiques of international human rights that come from both cultural relativist and feminist. The critique comes from the claim that human rights are universal and both cultural relativist and feminist disagree about the universalism in human rights. The author argue that whether feminist and cultural relativist is friends or foes regarding that both of them are same in criticizing the international human rights but at the same situation they oppose each other in the realm of women’s international human rights. In the section 1 of the paper, it already explained about

The purpose of this paper is to analyze to main questions. The first part of the paper will define transnational feminism and identify key factors within a transnational perspective. Another part will be discussing some transnational feminist critiques of mainstream “white/Western” feminism and will also give ideas that a transnational feminist would suggest in order to make positive changes for women. The second part of the paper will choose two concepts to define, as well as discuss how they relate to one another from a transnational perspective. In addition, the relation of how they related to gender or affect the political, social, and/or economic status of women in the world will be analyzed.

Families in both poor and rich countries no longer rely solely on the male alone providing for expenses but now women, especially in the U.S., are beginning to work outside of their homes to help pay the bills. However, if both parents no longer reside at home, then their kids are left abandoned. Women from across the globe come in and fill in the domestic positions that are casted off by working parents. Some women are fortunate enough to find a decent job that supplies for the material needs for their own children, others are less fortunate. Large percentages end up in hostile environments that demand much labor work as well as sexual services. These women who migrate to different places to fill in the “women’s work” has received little to no attention. This gives owners or employers a chance to treat these women poorly, ranting racial slurs, physically tormenting and exploiting their bodies. Despite putting women on somewhat equal levels of opportunities for work with men in the United States, there is still a portion of women who are being undermined and exacerbated. The U.S extracts natural resources from lands they have already colonized. In a similar way, they are extracting human resources from other places to fill in the needs for household

The issue pertaining to women’s rights is not one that is new. In the past, there were and still are typical differences between men and women, between the roles they play in society and the way they model their behavior. However, since those times significant changes have been found. Today gender roles have been loosened, allowing a strong impact on society. Women in the Western nations are no longer pleased with the role of being a homemaker; they would rather prefer to make their own careers and have the opportunity to have the same rights as men (Howie, 2010). This aspect means that women’s rights are built on freedom that can be observed as a quality, but not a problem. Women today still continue to fight for their rights.

The purpose of this project is to build on the existing literature regarding the International Human Rights regimes, with the goal of bridging a gap between the diffusion of international norms and changes in domestic respect for human rights. Due to a lack of formal enforcement mechanisms, it is difficult to punish states that violate its citizen’s human rights. One solution is to examine the role of international norms that are established and promoted via international treaties and organizations. If international norms are working, we should expect to see a process of diffusion taking place; states would improve their respect of human rights over time, but also in respect to their neighboring states. This would increase the global level

The current research draws a feminist conceptualization of security, a formula about how human security scholars can mediate between human and state security, reconstructing and promoting the importance of all forms of identity. Human security safeguards and expands the vital freedoms of people, requires shielding people from acute threats and empowers them to change their lives. A gender sensitive human security concept looks at conflict, post conflict, poverty, migration, economic security, knowledge and values. A gendered instrument to achieve human security for both men and women is to allow more women roles and seats in local and national governments, to shift gender perspectives to the political debate. Gender refers to the social and cultural differences between the sexes, is focused on the welfare of people, supports human rights and addresses post conflict resolution.

Being a female has many short-comings when it comes to legal rights. Females are often viewed as lesser-than in comparison to males. Lack of representation, lack of education rights, lack of status are all issues facing females in modern culture. Gender discrimination is not a new issue as females have been viewed as subordinates for years. Females being discriminated against is a matter that needs to be discussed and attention must be brought to it.

Human rights which include the right to life and liberty as well as freedom that belong to all human beings inherently despite of their statuses without discrimination (United Nations, 1948). Among issues of human rights, women’s rights could be one of the most serious ones. In the 1990s, women’s rights were not generally accepted as human rights and suffered various violations (Bunch, 1990). Despite women’s rights have been improved so far in most regions that female have almost equal employment opportunities and enhanced status in society, the issues of female rights need to be considered because they still have inferior positions compared with men in workplace and society due to a lot of factors.

It is known that feminism, both as a theory and as a political movement, is manifold and heterogeneous. Different feminist organizations act in different ways and on different fronts, ranging from cultural actions and population awareness on gender inequality, production of theoretical material and media publication, practical action in peripheral communities, participation in political councils and forums, organizations in women association, participation in electoral disputes among many others.

Right from the Preamble of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (1948), the “equal rights of women and men” are mentioned, together with the fundamental human rights, to be reaffirmed by the UN’s member states to form the background for the demonstration of the Declaration (Universal Declaration on Human Rights, 1948). The history of women’s rights can be traced back to the Babylonian law-code (the Code of Hammurabi, ca. 1780 BC) , and then one of the first legally documented declarations on women’s rights named Declaration of Sentiments signed in 1848 . In the modern time, a number of conventions and international conventions regarding women’s rights have been consented to set forth by many countries in the

The equality between men and women is an integral part of human rights, it is also a prerequisite for democracy and social justice. Any democratic state seeks to promote gender equality in all spheres of life. Despite the creation of a strong legal framework to ensure the principle of equality of both sexes, the gap between men and women about their capabilities remains significant (Pomeroy, 72).