Women and Migration

Migration is a phenomenom that affects people in many different ways, like social, economic, cultural and emotional. It consists on people leaving their home countries voluntarily with the purpuse of finding a better quality of life, more job opportunities, and even more cultural and religious freedom.

There can be many reasons why persons decide tomigrate to another country, sometimes they are merly economic, when people find better wages, other times they are more drastic, like political and cultural persecution, political instability, violence, poverty and discrimination.

Inmigrants are a very vulnerable segment of the population, they are sometimesdiscriminted by they culture, as it is the case of Muslim peole in the United States; they also have less job opportunities because they are often exploited by big companies who hires them as cheap labour hand with terrible job conditions that does not allow then to reach their expected gosls, by the contrary, the live in conditions of misery and extreme poverty.

Inmigrant women are even more vulnerable, they are weaker and more propense to sexual abuse, violence and explotation, specially in countrieswith lawas that doesn`t protect them from gender discrimination as it is also the case of Muslim countries. An example that perfectly ilustratesthos is the situation of women explotation in Sri Lanka, where they work many hours for a minimun pay and the country government doesn`t do very much about i.

In Order to fight against these situations many NGO`S have taken actions but the one that has done the must important job in this field is the IOM (International Organization for Migration) who cares and works for the migrant persons to have better life conditions, it fight for their rights, health and gender discrimination by promoting the international migration law.

The role of this organization is more important every day because we are facing globalization and the movement of people from one country to another as human assets for companies is very common and important.

It is also important the concern for human righs of inmigrants because violence is increasing and it forces people to scape in order to save their lifes and in many occasions people take advantageof them.

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