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ID183923
Title ProperBuilding one's own house
Other Title Informationpower and escape for Ethiopian women through international migration
LanguageENG
AuthorLauren Carruth
Summary / Abstract (Note)This study uses ethnography along Ethiopian women's irregular migration routes through Djibouti to analyse the complex reasons women leave home to seek labour opportunities in the Gulf States. Theories and policies that either narrowly depict women's motivations as economic in nature or focus only on women's needs for security and protection, fail to account both for the politics of seeking employment abroad, and the ways migration provides women a potential refuge from various forms of violence at home. Using a feminist analysis, we argue that women do not migrate only for financial opportunities, but also to escape combinations of domestic, political and structural violence. As such, irregular migration both evinces a failure of asylum systems and humanitarian organisations to protect Ethiopians, and a failure of the state to provide Ethiopian women meaningful citizenship. Lacking both protection and meaningful citizenship, international migration represents women's journeys for opportunity and emancipation.
`In' analytical NoteJournal of Modern African Studies Vol. 60, No.1; Mar 2022: p. 85 - 109
Journal SourceJournal of Modern African Studies 2022-03 60, 1
Key WordsCitizenship ;  Political Violence ;  Middle East ;  Ethnography ;  Horn of Africa ;  Labor Migration ;  Structural Violence ;  Irregular Migration ;  Gender-Based Violence