FEMALE LABOR

The process of migration is not an easy step, this one depends of several factors such as:

• It is a voluntary decision, or the person was push to leave the country.


• The economic situation, that is linked with the social situation.


• The identity that involves culture, langauge, history, ideology and religion.


• The difference of GENDER, being the last one but the most important of all of them.

Talking about gender is important to mark the difference with sex, because sex is the biological difference but gender is the social difference between gender, that is created since history and molded through culture and time.

When a person decides to leave the country complicated and complex but for women not also the obstacles increase, also the vulnerability is one of the most concerning things, because women tend to be more weak in front several situations and people in other countries take advantages of it.

A very clear example is what happen in Sri Lanka, where the majority of migrant women work long hours for low pay. In the article " Advocating for Sri Lanka migrant workers", make a statement about how migrant workers situation leads inexorably back to the state, where Sri Lanka state has three main factors:

• Sri Lanka gender norms


• Women´s lack of participation in national politics


• Sri Lanka disadvantageous position in the international division of labor
  

(Gamburd. R, Michele, Advocating Sri Lanka migrants workers, Critical Assian Estudies, 41: 1 (2009), o61-088)

With the changes of numbers of migrants between gender, the IOM started working for better conditions for migrants. Now days half of the migrant population are women, comparing years ago when it was a male phenomenon. There are several organizations or NGO´s working for this, but the IOM is the most recognized organization to fight for the migrants rights, health, migrant dimension of gender and orientation.

How important is to have an organization like this, becasue if the world is having the phenomenon called globalization, all of us have to work for the consequences even though they are god or bad!, and migration is not only about adopting new culture, languages and way of thinking, countries must have in mind that they are working with human beings, that have essential needs that need to be satisfied and they look the way to satisfied them through work that is a right for all.

At the same time migrants must respect the culture differences when the go to host countries, it is a game that must be played by two and not for one party only.

The iage is taken from (ecosoulintellectual.blogspot.com)