Gender Issues of the host societies 2

Women and migratory phenomenon

The feminization of migration is a phenomenon largely due to changes in the dynamics and structures established, brings a number of changes and challenges they must meet their host societies. Much of the change of roles in the development of migration generates new needs that these companies should meet smoothly and harmoniously, but these gender inequalities in them, cause if steps are not taken this issue further deepening.

Gender issues are a reality of Latin America, with the mixture of cultures of migrants and host societies are connecting and deepening. Unfortunately the feminization of visibility to the existing migrant population in each host society: gender violence, difficulties in ensuring the reproduction of households, income inequalities between men and women, increased vulnerability of women in the labor market and lack of access rights.

The display of these problems not only shows how backward and our societies are unequal, but indicate the long road we call to our societies and modern. Given these problems it is necessary to intervene and generate initiatives that work primarily on issues of violence against women, equal integration in society and fulfilling their rights.

With regard to migration, this is listed as a process in which new forms of exclusion, invisibility and inequality against women in national societies (Seminario Ibero-American Training Program, 2009), which is alarming due to the progressive increase migrant population in this global society itself. This leads to another challenge the work that this situation will change, and migration is only a process of mobility of people seeking a balance in access to opportunities to improve the quality of life of people, and they see as laudable option for companies migrating from a globalized and interconnected world that will give them the opportunities they need.