This title was first published in 2003. Migration is a phenomenon which is at the heart of global politics and, within the EU, governments are continually trying to reinforce their controls of migration. These controls, designed to increase the security of European populations may, however, have the adverse effect of increasing the insecurity of migrants. This is particularly true for the many women who migrate to Europe and find themselves in insecure positions because of their lack of independent legal status, the difficulty of access to adequate health and social security provision and their particular vulnerability to both domestic and institutional forms of violence. They are often in economically weak positions, either unemployed or in badly paid part-time or domestic jobs with no forms of social protection. Gender and Insecurity addresses these various forms of insecurity and details ways in which they might be addressed. Further, it looks at the ways in which immigrant women have themselves tried to fight against these insecurities through their own political mobilisation.
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Women migrants and asylum seekers in France: inequality and dependence
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Mechanisms for Colombian and Ecuadorian women's entry into Spain: from spontaneous migration to trafficking of women
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The globalization of domestic work: women migrants and neo-domesticity
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Women, migration and the labour market: the case of France
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Selling sex: trafficking, prostitution and sex work amongst migrant women in Europe
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Living with HIV: the experiences of migrant women from Africa in the UK
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The politics of identity and community: migrant women from Turkey in Germany
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From maids to entrepreneurs: immigrant women in Greece
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