Final technical report of the project on gender and migration : negotiating rights; a women’s movement perspective

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2012-06

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Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi, IN

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The project devised a new method for assessing women’s work/employment situations through separation of paid and unpaid work, which has allowed for construction of a picture of female labour migration previously camouflaged in the official data by the dominance of marriage migration. At another level, the project investigated cross-region long distance marriage, to explore factors that determine movement of young brides to distant and different cultural regions. The research shows diverse patterns of migration and how migrant women workers are excluded from a range of citizenship rights: as migrant workers, as migrant women and as migrating citizens.

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INDIA, GENDER, LABOUR MIGRATION, MARRIAGE MIGRATION, CITIZENSHIP, INTERNAL MIGRATION, SEASONAL WORKERS, AGRICULTURAL WORKERS, WOMEN'S RIGHTS, WOMEN WORKERS, MIGRATION, WOMEN MIGRANTS, SOUTH ASIA, LABOUR LAW, REGULATION, UNPAID WORK

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