Guide on Gender-Sensitive Labour Migration Policies
- Document number
- 2074
- Date
- 2009
- Title
- Guide on Gender-Sensitive Labour Migration Policies
- Author/publisher
- Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities, Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Senior Adviser on Gender Issues, OSCE
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Guidelines/Recommendations, Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Migrant rights; Migration management; Comprehensive approach to migration; Migration policy; Restrictive migration measures, Irregular Migration, Feminization of migration, Economic migration, Labour migration, Free movement, Undocumented migrants; Undocumented labour;
- Summary
- The Guide aims at presenting good practices and providing tools on how to shape gender-sensitive labour migration processes. Through this Guide, the aim is to encourage states, particularly those in the OSCE area, to include gender-sensitive measures in their labour migration policies. It has been prepared in particular for use by policymakers and practitioners. In so doing, it is hoped that labour migration policies will be developed in a more gender-just way in accordance with OSCE participating States' common commitments and values.
The Guide focuses on the fact that female migrant workers often experience different disadvantages in comparison to men at all stages of the migration process, due to their status, to the nature of the employment sector and type of educational requirements as well as stereotyped roles of men and women. - Related documents