Crossing Borders, Claiming Rights: Using Human Rights Law to Empower Women Migrant Workers

The author examines the impact of the Migrant Workers Convention on women migrant workers. She advocates an intersectional approach which combats discrimination by considering multiple forms of subordination faced by victims rather than a single variable. She then analyzes human rights violations and discriminatory labour practices experienced by female migrant workers through the lens of intersectionality, and looks at how relevant human rights treaties can be invoked to better protect their rights. She argues that the international community's sole focus on the Migrant Workers Convention as the best way to protect women migrant workers' rights is misplaced, and that rights would be better protected if multiple human rights treaties were invoked. [Descriptors: Migration - Labour Migration, International]