Season 1: When Sri Lankan women migrant workers face social welfare deficits at home and abroad

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Migrant Rights, Migrant Realities: Women’s Labour Migration

GAATW International Secretariat

9 episodes

4 days ago

Women migrant workers straddle different worlds of rightlessness. In destination countries, they may be excluded from labour laws or be subjected to exploitation. In home countries, their gender, class, and ethnicity may disempower them within the household and labour market. However, migrant women are not only victims of oppression; they contribute to their families' wellbeing and the global economy. This podcast series inhabits the world that migrant women live in, understands it from a rights-based standpoint, and strives for policies that make work and migration radically safer.

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Season 1: When Sri Lankan women migrant workers face social welfare deficits at home and abroad | Bilesha Weeraratne

Migrant Rights, Migrant Realities: Women’s Labour Migration

35 minutes 4 seconds

4 years ago

Season 1: When Sri Lankan women migrant workers face social welfare deficits at home and abroad | Bilesha Weeraratne

For many years now, civil society has been calling for a better understanding of the gendered nature of labour migration. In Sri Lanka, data on the remittances sent by migrant workers remain aggregated. This reveals the government’s lack of information and recognition of women’s contribution to the macroeconomy. This has affected its investment in women workers' welfare. But this lack of recognition and social safety net does not only happen in Sri Lanka. It happens even in the countries of destination which substantially benefit from migrant workers’ labour.

Please the transcript of this episode here: https://bit.ly/3c4GRbB

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Music credits:

"Divider" by Chris Zabriskie from https://music.youtube.com/

"Birds" by Silent Partner from YouTube Audio Library

"Desert City" by Kevin MacLeod from https://music.youtube.com/

"Cease" by A Himitsu from YouTube Audio Library

"Stale Mate" by Jingle Punk from YouTube Audio Library

"I Think I Can Help You" by The Six Realms from YouTube Audio Library

"Rounding" by Savfk from https://breakingcopyright.com/

"Night Music" by Kevin MacLeod from https://music.youtube.com/

"Where Silence is Nonexistent" by A Himitsu from https://music.youtube.com/

"Bending Truth" by Remember the Future

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