Reference:
Status of Women Canada (2000)
Annotation:
This extensive report focuses on two groups of women migrants in Canada: live-in caregivers and mail-order brides. The analysis of the live-in caregivers program outlines policy rationales for the historical development of this program and identifies potential amendments to existing legislation to better protect the rights of these women. In assessing the status of mail-order brides, the report reviews the complex legal framework which governs this form of migration. The report uses a feminist analytical framework to demonstrate how the apparently neutral legislation governing these types of migration results in significant human rights violations. The authors conclude by advocating for both domestic and international action to better protect the rights of these women migrants. [Descriptors: Migration - Refugees and Immigration, Canada]