WGST 1808 Study Guide - Sex Tourism, Sweatshop, Glocalization

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Globalization effects on women"s labor: more jobs in the global domestic and care industries, more jobs in the sex tourism industry, trafficked for sweatshop, marriage, domestic, and sex work, increased migration for work, more export production jobs. Sex tourism: economy of desire/gender/race/class, exchange of essentialized stereotypes. Transnational factory work: ftzs free trade zones, epzs: export processing zones, young women are preferred workers because of, presumed manual dexterity and docility, desperation for work, lack of awareness about their rights, seemingly limitless supply. Activism: enforcement of ilo (international labor organization) standards for labor and human rights, global north legislation to enforce standards, ngo work, activist groups. Types of migration: voluntary migration, labour migrants (regular or irregular), long term, seasonal/temporary, secondary migrants within family regrouping, forced migration, refugees or asylum seekers, victims of trafficking. Feminization of migration: almost half of all migrants are women.