MIGRATION, EXPATS AND OVERSEAS EXPERIENCES

WHAT DOES IOM DOES TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS OF WOMEN MIGRANT WORKERS?

Nowadays almost half of the migrants in the world are women and now they migrate to pursue opportunities on their own.

The international organzation of migration does the following things to improve the conditions of women migrant workers:

-Provides victims of violence with the full range of immediate assistance and protection.

-Establishes reintegration and rehabilitation schems for returning women migrant workers.

-Has trainning programmes for law enforcers, immigration officers and border officials, prosecutors an service providers.

IOM actively contributes to protecting women migrant workers from violence by implementing ideas in some areas like: promotion of legal and safe migration for women, promotion of policies that regulate the recruitment and deployment of women migant workers, research on women and interational labour migration, promotion of gender-sensitive international migration policies, fostering inter state dialogue etc.

The International Organization of Migrants also does the following things to diminish the impact of migration on women migrant workers:

1. Fostering sustainable alternatives to migration in countries of origin: the elemens implemented are improving social services, expanding economic opportunity and investing on community infraestructure in specific geographic areas.

2. Promoting legal channels of migration, inter alia, in order to deter illegal migration: one of the main objectives is to promote and facilitate legal avenues of labour migration as an alternative to irregular migration.

3. Improving women's access to meaningful and gender-sensitive migration information and education: IOM works close with countries of origin and destination to prevent misinformation through awareness-raising activities and provision of information.

Additionally, the IOM focuses on some pilars like:

-Protecting women migrant worker's Human rights.

-Protecting women migrant workers from sexual and gender-based violence, domestic violence, abusive labour practices and discriination.

-Addressing women migrant workers' disproportionate labour market discrimination.

-Addressing genderes forms of racism and xenophobia agaisnt wome migrant workers.

-Promoting the physical and mental health and well being of women migrant workers.

-Women migrant worker's empowerment and reduction of their vulnerability to abuse.

-Protecting the human rights of migrant girls, including unacompanie girls.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

ANONYMOUS. Working to prevent and address violence against women migrant workers. (Electronic document). http://www.acnur.org