Violence in relation to (im)migrating women in Europe

Abstract

Este texto caracteriza a situação das mulhres migrantes na União Européia. Na Europa, em 2006, havia um contingente de 18.5 milhões de migrantes procedentes de países do Terceiro Mundo, 54% dos quais eram mulheres. As mulheres migrantes sofrem vulnerabilidades ligadas ao trabalho, participação política e social, maior exposição às violências e sexismo. As autoras apresentam a legislação atual referente à migração no perído de 2000 a 2007, apontando alguns programas e políticas de integração e enfatizando o respeito aos direitos humanos fundamentais." This text characterizes the situation of (im)migrating women in the European Union. In Europe, in 2006, there was a contingent of 18.5 million (im)migrants coming from Developing Countries, 54% of which were women. (Im)Migrating women suffer vulnerabilities linked to work, to lower political and social participation, higher exposition to violence and sexism. The authors present the current legislation concerned to (im)migration in the 2000-2007 period, showing some integration programs and policies and highlighting the respect to basic human rights.

Interpersonal Violence and its Association with US Migration Desires and Plans among Youths in Guanajuato, Mexico

“…Studies on domestic violence—in particular, intimate partner violence—show that battering may begin or increase after migration due to the migrant woman’s social isolation in the new setting and dependence on her partner for economic support or legal status (Alcalde 2006; Klevens 2007). Other research has documented how international migration may relate to violence via labor exploitation (Alcalde 2006; Van de Troost and Vial 2008; Gulcur and Ilkkaracan 2002). International migrants, typically female migrants, take jobs in which they have little power and are socially isolated and, therefore, subject to physical and sexual violence at the hands of their male coworkers, bosses, or clients.…”