ABSTRACT
People are living in a period of social realignments for which the term global society best reflects the multiscale and multilevel interdependence and connectedness between nations and communities. Increasing interdependence of goods and labour markets in an unbalanced global economy is spurring migration flows across the world. Thus, triggered by intraregional economic and demographic gaps, an increasing number of women with low skill sets migrate as domestic workers from Asia to the Gulf. Many women migrant workers end up in unregulated workplaces in the informal economy, in domestic work, hospitality and entertainment. Experiences of human rights abuse in labour migration management have been found to be embedded at the intersections of structures of power and identities that are historically formed. In South Asia, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Convention on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Women and Children, ratified by all Member States, came into force on 15 November 2005.
