Female face of migration Archives - Page 7 of 11

On board trains to the United States, migrants are not alone

16/03/2012 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Migration, North America, Trafficking, United States by Caritas Communications

It is 7:30pm, in Amatlan, in the province of Cordoba Veracruz. The train whistle blows in the distance. In Norma Romero Vazquez’ kitchen, headquarters of the “Patronas “, women bustle about.. Carmen, 90, the oldest of the women in the family, takes a crate filled with bags of food. Along with her daughters and granddaughters, Carmen ...

Home alone in Nepal

16/03/2012 Advocacy, Asia, Blog, Female face of migration, Migration, Nepal, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

By Laura Sheahen “Where’s your mother?” Usually when you ask small children this question, the answer is predictable: At home. At the market. At work, a few kilometres or a drive away. In villages of Nepal, a deeply impoverished country on India’s northeast border, children answer differently. “In Kuwait.” “In Saudi.” “She’s in a foreign ...

Bhutanese refugees in Nepal: A day in the life

13/03/2012 Advocacy, Asia, Blog, Female face of migration, Migration, Nepal, Refugees, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

In the early 1990s the country of Bhutan, in the Himalayas, forcibly drove out over 100,000 ethnic Nepalis they claimed were not true citizens. These Bhutanese refugees ended up in eastern Nepal as migrants in limbo. Required to stay in refugee camps, they’ve lived for 20 years without electricity or good health care. The camp ...

Domestic worker abuse: Battered, bruised but back in Nepal

8/03/2012 Advocacy, Asia, Blog, Domestic servitude, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Migration, Nepal by Caritas Communications

By Laura Sheahen, “When I got home, my family saw my condition and cried.” Twenty-four-year old Damber Kumari Gurung had left her village in Nepal for Saudi Arabia to work as a maid. More than a year later, she came back covered with bruises. She’d worked long hours in a private Saudi home, getting about ...

Migrants risk all to cross from Mexico to the US

7/03/2012 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Latin America, Mexico, Migration, North America, United States by Caritas Communications

Human smuggling is a boom business according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, with the profits in the billions (over $32 billion in 2005). Caritas Internationalis says that while every country has the right to regulate immigration, restrictive measures are simply encouraging people to resort to more dangerous and expensive channels of migration.

Female face of migration

7/03/2012 Advocacy, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Migration, Minor migrants, Refugees, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

When impoverished women decide to leave their countries to work abroad, they often are deceived or abused. Smugglers and human traffickers may exploit them, forcing them to work as unpaid prostitutes or beggars. Women who become domestic workers are sometimes beaten, overworked, or not paid. Many women leave behind their own families to care for ...

Justice and care for migrant women

7/03/2012 Female face of migration, Migration, News, Press Release by Caritas Communications

More women than ever before are migrating alone in search of a better life, but Caritas Internationalis says systems aren’t in place to prevent them from being exploited or abused. In a report published today, Caritas says governments and social services dealing with migration need to address migrant women’s needs. In its report The female face ...

Drugged, kidnapped and enslaved in brothel: how one Nepalese woman fought back

7/03/2012 Advocacy, Asia, Blog, Female face of migration, Migration, Nepal, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

By Laura Sheahen “In the brothel, there were no windows. The only light was from the lightbulb—that was the sun and the moon for us.” Charimaya Tamang grew up in the hill country of Nepal, working on her family’s farm. She was used to the outdoors and sunshine and freedom. But after waking from a ...

U-turn Ukraine: There’s no place like home

27/02/2012 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Europe, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Migration, Ukraine by Caritas Communications

Oxana had left Ukraine to join her husband. He had gone to Brussels to look for work after being made redundant and with the lack of job opportunities at home.

‘They’ve sold you’: sex trafficking in Nepal

27/02/2012 Advocacy, Asia, Female face of migration, Migration, Nepal, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

To mark the launch of a new Caritas report on the female face of migration, communications officer Laura Sheahen and photographer Katie Orlinsky travelled to Nepal to document the trafficking of young girls and women. Follow their journey. By Laura Sheahen “We girls were hidden under floorboards during police raids. There were ten girls there ...