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Making the EAC Regime Beneficial to Female Labour Migrants

Making the EAC Regime Beneficial to Female Labour Migrants JULIANA MASABO I. INTRODUCTION The number of women traversing international borders in search of better employment opportunities has grown significantly. It was estimated that by 1960, female international migrants accounted for nearly 47 out of every 100 international migrants.1 An increase in the number of female migrants living outside their home has been recorded ever since.2 The increased presence of women in international migration is a result of numerous factors. Major among these is the desire to improve their own lives and to provide a better life for themselves, their children or their family members left at home.3 Poverty and exclusion, the rise in women's educational attainment, the increased demand for women's labour in the service sector sectors and cultural and social changes in attitudes towards female migration in many source countries have also contributed to this change. As transnational labour and women's labour mobility in particular increase both in numbers and diversity, the nexus between migration and development has increasingly gained prominence in international discourse, with the rate of remittance flow to developing countries and its relationship to the development of these countries being at the centre of the migration-development discourse. The role of migration in improving http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png African Journal of International and Comparative Law Edinburgh University Press

Making the EAC Regime Beneficial to Female Labour Migrants

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Edinburgh University Press
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© Edinburgh University Press 2016
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0954-8890
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10.3366/ajicl.2016.0172
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JULIANA MASABO I. INTRODUCTION The number of women traversing international borders in search of better employment opportunities has grown significantly. It was estimated that by 1960, female international migrants accounted for nearly 47 out of every 100 international migrants.1 An increase in the number of female migrants living outside their home has been recorded ever since.2 The increased presence of women in international migration is a result of numerous factors. Major among these is the desire to improve their own lives and to provide a better life for themselves, their children or their family members left at home.3 Poverty and exclusion, the rise in women's educational attainment, the increased demand for women's labour in the service sector sectors and cultural and social changes in attitudes towards female migration in many source countries have also contributed to this change. As transnational labour and women's labour mobility in particular increase both in numbers and diversity, the nexus between migration and development has increasingly gained prominence in international discourse, with the rate of remittance flow to developing countries and its relationship to the development of these countries being at the centre of the migration-development discourse. The role of migration in improving

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African Journal of International and Comparative Law – Edinburgh University Press

Published: Nov 1, 2016

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