SOCIAL POLITICS

This article examines the effect of intersectionality on violence against women. The authors assert that a universal tendency to focus on the cultural nature of violence against women and downplay or ignore other contributing factors can marginalize certain groups through a process known as "othering". The authors explain that a proper acknowledgment of the unique needs and experiences of different women is essential to effective policy-making. This paper examines and critiques the ways in which the European Union has framed differences when creating

This article analyzes historical concepts that marginalize women's domestic, caring and sexual labour as non-work, and the impact on female migrant workers in Europe. In her discussion of the non-recognition of housework and sexual labour as productive work, the author notes that these forms of labour are precisely those widely offered to migrant women. Furthermore, she argues that the international community's fixation on trafficking and prostitution ignores the day-to-day situation of women migrants who are expected to provide sexual services alongside domestic and care work.