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Implications of Gender Neutrality of the EU Common Migration Policy to the Rights of Female Migrant Workers

Female labour migration merits attention because of its numerous particularities compared to the male labour migration. Due to limited options for legal migrations to the European Union for third country nationals, migrant women tend to seek employment in informal sector, entertainment sector and private households where they become physicaly and legally invisible. Implicit applicability of the EU general gender equality acquis to the female workers in insufficient to secure legal protection as it applies only to documented female migrants and subordinates the gender equality as universal human right to the residence status. The hypothesis of the paper is that the absence of gender sensitivity in the EU common migration policy could have detrimental consequence to the labour and other human rights offemale migrant workers.

Migration; Gender; EU; Neutrality; Workers

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