Glocalizing Women's Health and Safety : Migration, Work and Labor

The author argues that, as migration is feminized, institutions must shift from focusing on the legality of presence and treating migrants as disposable people, to a human rights-based approach that centers migrants’ well-being. The author uses the frameworks of “glocalization” and “marginableness” in order to make visible the movement of persons that is otherwise invisible in conversations on globalization and current human rights regimes. In doing so, women are better understood as not monoliths but multidimensional beings with varied sexual, gender, ethnic, religious, class, race, ability, and economic identities. This provides the context for analyzing the lives of migrants, workers, and women in labour alike, and recognizing the interrelated nature of their disproportionate exposure to health and safety risks.