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Women Migrant Workers in Asia

A Review New Delhi

Author : Gulati, Leela

Publisher: A review New Delhi

Year: 1993

Acc. No: 931-S

Category: Soft Documents

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Languages: English

In recent years, there has been a consistent, continuous and increasing trend in the migration of women workers to the oil-rich Middle Eastern countries and rapidly industrializing East and South East, Asian countries. While women workers clearly predominate mean as in case of Sri Lanka, the skill composition of these flows too has changed. Instead of highly skilled women professionals, the dominate groups among women migrating workers consists largely of domestic workers and entertainers. This report is based on a mission to two major labor exporting countries- the Philippines and Sri Lanka and one labor importing country Singapore. It reviews major problems and issues faced by women migrant workers; the conditions of recruitment and employment; the various legislative and other controls and regulations concerning women migrant workers; the conditions of recruitment and employment; the various legislative and other controls and regulations concerning women migrant workers and their input. The occupations in to which women workers are moving into in large numbers, are particularly exposed to a great deal of exploitation and abuses. This calls for urgent and practical measures. Six channels have been identified for possible supportive action. These are; the labor exporting country individually, labor exporting countries collectively, international agencies, NGOs in the labor sending and receiving countries and international NGOs.