Gender and forced migrations in Central America and the Caribbean

Abstract

Massive transnational migrations and domestic ones represent a complex phenomenon, often hiding serious violations of human rights and gender violence. In this framework, we aim at highlighting two case studies of forced migrations affecting girl children and women: women and girls trafficking in Central America and the Caribbean and the condition of displaced women for violence, in Mexico. This research committed for gender equality and human rights of girl children and women combines, by an innovative qualitative approach, anthropology of gender and theory of human rights, for an anthropology of implementation of the international legal standards for girl children’s and women’s rights. A combination of research results, from high-level international and local research, with our ethnographic field research results from the Dominican Republic and Mexico will be presented.