Management Versus Rights: Women's Migration and Global Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean
研究揭示全球治理中移民管理优先于人权保护的现实,通过访谈分析拉丁美洲和加勒比地区国际组织在女性移民权利保护上的言行不一,指出反贩运框架限制了女性移民劳动和社会权利的进展。
Abstract The global governance of labor migration reflects two major trends: one supports neoliberal migration management priorities and another addresses human rights, with the latter subordinated to the former. This subordination of human rights to other, market-related, priorities parallels global governance priorities in general. While some international organizations address the need for protection of migrant rights, their specific on-the-ground programs do not match the rhetoric. This study demonstrates this disconnection on the basis of an analysis of interviews with representatives of global governance institutions and international nongovernmental organizations conducted between 2007 and 2010 in the Latin American and Caribbean region and at the headquarters of relevant international organizations in Geneva. Furthermore, the study argues that because the discourse on migrant women's rights and their labor exploitation is framed predominantly in the context of trafficking, little headway is made in advancing migrant women's labor and social rights.