Empowerment as a pre-requisite to managing and influencing health in the workplace: The sexual and reproductive health needs of factory women migrant workers in Malaysia

Miles, Lilian; Freeman, Tim; Teng, Lai Wan; Yasin, Suziana Mat; Ying, Kuang

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“…Research excluded through the specificity criteria deals with female migrant workers and poor working conditions of domestic and care work (Aceros et al 2021(Aceros et al , 2023Anam et al 2021;Au et al 2019;Briones-Vozmediano et al 2020;Chanamuto 2022;Duque et al 2023;Ghaddar et al 2020;Rivera-Navarro et al 2019;Van Bortel et al 2019;Shewamene et al 2022;Vianello and Wolkowitz 2023) or other types of work, formal or informal (Cabras and Ingrascì 2022;Fardella Cisternas et al 2021;Duda-Mikulin 2020;Hendrickson et al 2019;Karandikar et al 2022;Kim et al 2021;Linardelli 2018;Luque-Ribelles et al 2018;Molina-Rodríguez 2020;Molina-Rodríguez 2021;Mourouvaye et al 2019;Premji 2018;Vacchelli and Peyrefitte 2018); on health issues (Briones-Vozmediano et al 2020;Koudstaal et al 2020;Marques et al 2021;Premji 2018;Chung and Mak 2020;Vianello and Wolkowitz 2023), specific areas such as sexual and reproductive health (Freeman et al 2023;Miles et al 2022;Paulino-Ramirez et al 2023), mental health (Aceros et al 2021;Van Bortel et al 2019;Zotova et al 2021) or COVID (Anam et al 2021;…”

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Education and Other Factors Influencing Women Migrants’ Employability and Entrepreneurship

Pérez-Varela,

Cárdenas-Rodríguez

2024

Social Sciences

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Education is considered to be one of the most critical factors when it comes to finding work or starting a business. However, for women migrants, other factors can have an even more decisive influence, since they are starting out with the double disadvantage they face as women and migrants. This manuscript sets out to identify and analyse the individual and external factors that affect the employability and entrepreneurship of women migrants. To do this, we conducted a systematised qualitative review of recent literature. The studies analysed address different aspects of integration and employment but agree on many of the factors that hinder employability and entrepreneurship, such as traditional gender mandates, racism, socioeconomic status, the migration process, age or human capital. However, the scientific literature continues to mask the reality of women migrants who face discrimination or inequalities derived, for example, from their belonging to the LGBTQ+ collective or their functional diversity.

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Education and Other Factors Influencing Women Migrants’ Employability and Entrepreneurship

Pérez-Varela,

Cárdenas-Rodríguez

2024

Social Sciences

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Self-surveillance practices of factory women migrant workers receiving SRH interventions in Malaysia: The effects of salience, gendered subjectivity and universalism

Freeman,

Miles,

Ying

2024

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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Managing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs remains a challenge for many women migrant workers in developing countries. Nonetheless, the extent to which they can be supported in meeting these needs remains underexplored, with implications for worker health and working life. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 25 factory women migrant workers in Penang, Malaysia, this article applies a Foucauldian lens of governmentality to explore directly their agency in managing their SRH. The authors consider the self-surveillance practices the women adopt in response to a programme of SRH interventions. The findings reveal varied degrees of compliance with programme expectations. The article demonstrates empirically the importance of the perceived salience of SRH as a motivating force in self-surveillance practices, drawing out the disempowering effects of self-consciousness and shame in gendered subjectivity. The authors further consider the impact of universalist prescriptions for SRH within locales in the developing world, and the implications for SRH interventions with factory women migrant workers in such settings.

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Working Conditions and Occupational Risks of Migrant Women (CTM Textile Factory Case Study)

Jasrotia,

Sharma

2024

REGIONOLOGY

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Introduction. Gender inequality in the workplace is not a new phenomenon, yet gender differences in working conditions and womenʼs involvement in the workplace are poorly understood. Women are often discriminated against in the workplace and their working conditions and wages are substandard. On their own, they are not always able to improve their working and social life and achieve better protection at work. This study aims to explore the working conditions and risks faced by migrant women working in one of the oldest and largest STM textile factories in Jammu and Kashmir, India. Materials and Methods. The purposive sample consisted of 240 migrant women from the STM textile factory. They were interviewed in four work colonies and outer residential areas through a series of interviews. The study utilizes mixed methods ‒ quantitative and qualitative. Observation, interview series were used to quantify the data and provide detailed qualitative information. Results. It was found that there were cases of injuries at work reported by the migrant women workers at CTM. Only in a few of the serious cases employees were monetarily compensated. Not all employees are provided with the essential protection kits for dealing with the hazardous chemicals and toxins therefore poor health, ailments and sores, fatigue, cramps were majorly reported by the respondents. Discrimination on the basis of gender, conditions of harassment, physical violence and other workplace hazards to mental, emotional, and physical health were reported by the migrant women workers. Discussion and Conclusion. The authors concluded that migrant women continue to work in hazardous conditions, putting their health at risk and becoming victims of exploitation. The findings underscore the need for inclusive policies and interventions, as well as a reassessment of existing labour practices, to address issues that contribute to the vulnerability of migrant workers. The article's contributions will be useful to regional authorities, labour and women's rights advocates who are interested in addressing the specific challenges of this vulnerable group. This empirical study may benefit scholars interested in the topics of gender, migration, and working conditions.

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Empowerment as a pre-requisite to managing and influencing health in the workplace: The sexual and reproductive health needs of factory women migrant workers in Malaysia

Cited by 3 publications

References 63 publications

Education and Other Factors Influencing Women Migrants’ Employability and Entrepreneurship

Education and Other Factors Influencing Women Migrants’ Employability and Entrepreneurship

Self-surveillance practices of factory women migrant workers receiving SRH interventions in Malaysia: The effects of salience, gendered subjectivity and universalism

Working Conditions and Occupational Risks of Migrant Women (CTM Textile Factory Case Study)

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