Migration, gender and care
Seminar 2301
ChairCLACSO
Coordination: Lucía Scuro and María Jesús Silva (ECLAC)
Teaching team: Lucía Scuro, María Jesús Silva, María Elena Valenzuela, Iliana Vaca Trigo, Pamela Villalobos, Carlos Maldonado Valera, Carolina Stefoni (ECLAC)
Home: 23/03/2023 | Registration: 15/12/2022 to 22/03/2023
Workload: 12 weeks – 90 hours.
Democratic societies are built on the foundation of equality and participation, in a context where everyone has the right and the opportunity to assume a role and responsibility in decision-making. Consequently, equality of rights is fundamental to the exercise of citizenship, the basis for a cohesive society that shares objectives and values, with mutual recognition and a sense of belonging, and is therefore key to democratic governance (ECLAC, 2019a).
The persistence of disparities in development, well-being, economic and political stability and the enjoyment of rights, the different stages in the processes of demographic change, the greater ease of moving and communicating across borders, and, in general, the multiplicity of motivations and factors that drive migrations imply that these will continue to constitute a central dynamic within and between our societies (ECLAC, 2019a).
In recent years, the proportion of women migrating in search of employment opportunities has increased significantly. Situations such as poverty, lack of jobs, violence, and various manifestations of gender inequality are the main reasons why they leave their countries of origin. International migration poses a new challenge for the analysis of care work. Women migrate to take on tasks stemming from the outsourcing of reproductive labor in their destination countries, while simultaneously assuming the burden of providing for their households and performing care work remotely (transnational care) within the framework of a new social organization of family life forced by their absence (ECLAC, 2019b).
Throughout the sessions of this Virtual Seminar, we will explore the phenomenon of migration in Latin America and its impacts on the social organization of care for dependent persons. In addition, we will analyze discussions on global care chains and present recent research on the topic.
- The care economy in Latin America
- Dynamics of migration in the region and its main dimensions
- Migrant women in Latin American legislation
- Migration, work and care
- Global care chains and migration governance
- Migratory care corridors
- The importance of data for the formulation of equality policies
- Violence, racism and migration
- Migration and social protection
- The impacts of COVID-19 on migration
- (2020a) The COVID-19 pandemic deepens the care crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago,
- Carrasco, I., and Suárez, JI (2018) International migration and inclusion in Latin America: Analysis in destination countries through household surveys, Social Policy Series No. 231 (LC/TS.2018/57), Santiago, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
- Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) (2019), Social Panorama of Latin America, 2019 (LC/PUB.2019/22-P/Re v.1), Santiago.
- Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and UN Women (2020c) Care in Latin America and the Caribbean in times of COVID-19: towards comprehensive systems to strengthen the response and recovery, Santiago, ECLAC.
- Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), “Regulations on international migration”. Gender Equality Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean (GEO).
- Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Women's Autonomy in Changing Economic Scenarios (LC/CRM.14/3), Santiago, Pages 161-167.
- Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), The matrix of social inequality in Latin America (LC/G.2690(MDS.1/2), October 2016. Pages 13-27.
- Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), UN Women, International Labour Organization (ILO) (2020b) Paid domestic workers in Latin America and the Caribbean facing the COVID-19 crisis, Santiago.
- Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Social Panorama of Latin America, 2019 (LC/PUB.2019/22-P/Re v.1), Santiago, 2019
- Fries Monleón, (2019), “Migrant women in the legislations of Latin America: analysis of the repository of regulations on international migration of the Gender Equality Observatory of Latin America and the Caribbean”, Gender Issues series, No. 157 (LC/TS.2019/40), Santiago, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
- Maldonado Valera, C., Martínez Pizarro, J. and Martínez, R. (2018) “Social protection and migration: a look from the vulnerabilities throughout the migration cycle and the life of people”, Project Documents (LC/TS.2018/62), Santiago, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
- Milosavljevic, V (2007) Statistics for gender equality.
- International Labour Organization (ILO) (2015), ILO Global Estimates of Migrant Workers. A Special Focus on Migrant Domestic Workers. ILO Department of Conditions of Work and Equality and ILO Department of Statistics,
- Social Panorama of Latin America, 2019 (LC/PUB.2019/22-P/Re 1), Santiago, 2019.
- Rangel, Marta (2020), Social protection and migration: the challenge of inclusion without racism or xenophobia, Social Policies series, No. 232 (LC/TS.2019/127), Santiago, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
- Soto, Clyde; Soto, Lilian; González Myriam; Dobrée, Patricio (2016) Regional panorama of migrant domestic workers in America Asunción, ILO- UN Women-CDE.
- Valenzuela, María Elena; Scuro Somma, Lucía; Vaca-Trigo, Iliana (2020) Inequality, care crisis and migration of paid domestic work in Latin America.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The basic requirements for taking a seminar are:
- Availability of at least 4 hours per week to dedicate to the seminar course.
- Internet access.
- Reasonable handling of communication and computer tools.
- Language proficiency in the language in which the course will be taught. The official languages are Spanish and Portuguese.
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Discount for one payment until 13/03 |
In one payment after 13/03 |
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CM Plenos |
$75 |
$150 |
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CM Associates |
$95 |
$190 |
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No link |
$95 |
$190 |
