The legal protection of women migrant domestic workers from the Philippines and Sri Lanka: an intersectional rights-based approach

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration drivers

  • Gender relations
  • Labour markets and employment
  • Migration policy and other public policies

• Migration forms

  • Low-skilled migration
  • Labour migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
  • Ethnic, religious and national minorities

• Socio-economic consequences

  • (Sexual) Exploitation

• Legal-political consequences

  • Migrants' civic engagement and rights

Migration governance

• Governance actors

  • National governmental and state institutions
  • Employers, labour and trade unions

• Immigrant policy and law

  • Antidiscrimination, 'race relations'
  • Gender-specific and gendered migration policies

• Migration policy and law

  • Policies on low and semi-skilled labour migration

• Governance processes

  • Implementation

Cross-cutting topics in migration research

• Transversal themes

  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and sexuality

Disciplines

• Disciplines

  • Economics
  • Law and Legal studies

Methods

• Qualitative research

  • Interviews / FGD / Oral history
  • Qualitative text analysis and content analysis and document analysis (incl. policy analysis)
  • Legal analysis (laws)

Geographies

• Scope

  • Global
  • International
  • National

• UN Countries

  • Philippines
  • Sri Lanka