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Love is Not a Passport to Sweden

Intimate Partner Violence against Migrant Women and the Proliferation of Rights' Statuses

Series: UN Women Discussion Papers
( PDF: September 2018 )

This paper investigates how women’s right to live free from violence operates in the context of insecure immigration status. It is based on qualitative research addressing intimate partner violence...

This paper investigates how women’s right to live free from violence operates in the context of insecure immigration status. It is based on qualitative research addressing intimate partner violence...


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Reconfiguring Care Relationships

Ethiopian Migrants in Australia and Lebanon

Series: UN Women Discussion Papers
( PDF: October 2017 )

Migration reconfigures care relationships as people adapt to employment, entitlements and care practices in a new context. While a rich genre of analysis of “global care chains” draws attention to how...

Migration reconfigures care relationships as people adapt to employment, entitlements and care practices in a new context. While a rich genre of analysis of “global care chains” draws attention to how...


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Neither Heroines nor Victims

Women Migrant Workers and Changing Family and Community Relations in Nepal

Series: UN Women Discussion Papers
( PDF: November 2017 )

Circular labour migration is frequently portrayed as a gender-neutral phenomenon. Despite the growing literature on the feminization of migration, scholarly and policy literature is often gender-blind...

Circular labour migration is frequently portrayed as a gender-neutral phenomenon. Despite the growing literature on the feminization of migration, scholarly and policy literature is often gender-blind...