Women's Studies 2244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Structural Violence, Free-Trade Zone, Precarious Work

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2244
• Professor: Jessica Polzer

Document Summary

Power relations between those who own the means of economic production (e. g. , transnational companies) and labourers (who sell their labour to those companies to make ends meet). Mental and physical health and wellbeing of migrant labourers. Transnational gendered division of labour and worker exploitation. Transnational gendered social relations of oppression and empowerment. Occupational health among male migrant workers in us: care crisis in canada and in the philippines (parrenas), mexican day labourers in san francisco"s mission district. Maquiladora industry in mexico: sexual violence and structural (social) violence in juarez, mexico (garwood); Export of domestic labour care crisis in the philippines: Political and economic context: economic survival of families and home" country, gendered media representations of irresponsible mothers" > women vilified for migrating for work and abandoning domestic responsibilities, gendered ideologies of women as natural caregivers. Effects on identities as labourers and mothers: gendered expectations in conflict with demands of economic system.