Intersecting Protections, Migrating Women: Using Human Rights Law to Empower Women Migrant Workers

The focus of this paper is the exploitation of migrant domestic workers and the necessity of looking for protection mechanisms beyond the new Migrant Worker's Convention. The paper begins with an examination of the movement of women workers globally. In looking to the needs of women migrant workers, the paper argues that an intersectionality approach would be appropriate for recognizing the impacts of gender, race and ethnicity. As such, the protection of women, workers, and migrants as separate regimes could be utilized to assist women migrant workers in seeking protection under existing human rights norms. [Descriptors: Migration - Labour Migration, International