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Class about Gender and Migration

Hello, this is my first post here.

But I feel like I need your opinion.

I’m an university student in Germany and I had last week this class that is still bothering me.

It is mainly about Migration in Asia (since my major is Japanese language and culture) and this particular class was about Gender in Migration.

We had this text about the gender stratification of migration.

It seems that migration law in Asia is really strict and in some countries you only get accepted when you are a skilled worker or some exception.

It seems a lot of countries don’t give women the education to become a skilled worker migrant so they have to migrate illegal or as a domestic worker. (Exceptions to traditional health care or teaching jobs it seems)

In the text was stated that one of the main reasons a women is migrating is because the job situation is bad in her country and her husband is permanently unemployed and cant support the family. So the women is migrating to a country either as a domestic worker, entertainer (mostly working in a bar hostess etc) or illegal (prostitutes). It seems even when they entered the country legally e.g. as a domestic worker, there are no proper laws to secure them, so they face things like domestic violence & rape.

These things are not new I know so here comes my problem:

Also it was stated that when the women earns the money the relationship faces “reversed ...