Gender and Migration: Why are Women more Vulnerable?

The main concern of this presentation is that while the overall feminization of international migration is increasing, the vulnerability of women migrants to discrimination, exploitation and abuse is also likely to increase. Then we need to discuss what can be done to improve protection and alleviate discrimination. The presentation will focus on the following issues: Why are migrant women more vulnerable? What are the main forms of discrimination, exploitation or abuse? How can discrimination, exploitation and abuse be redressed?2 As such the presentation intends to focus on women migrant workers in the destination country and who have migrated voluntarily. International migration is seen by many to be a transitory phenomenon in response to temporary shortages and surpluses of labour. However there is strong evidence that while this form of population Femmes en mouvement 71