Global Immigration Issues

At the April meeting, we were very fortunate to have Dr. Jenna Hennebry, a globally known migration scholar and recognized expert on gender- responsive migration governance and labour migration as our speaker.

The focus of her talk was “Two steps forward, two steps back: the impacts of backsliding on gender equality for women migrants worldwide.”

She spoke about recent research documenting backsliding on gender equality in the context of foreign policy and migration and the UN system and also the fact that Germany and Canada have each recently stepped away from their Feminist Foreign Policy.

Dr. Hennebry pointed out that even world problems such as poverty, and climate change are affected by gender inequality. 

Since so many women migrants are not given the opportunity to get an education, often their only path is to be a domestic with no benefits and are often paid “under the table.”

It is appropriate that one of the resolutions to be voted on at the CFUW National conference I entitled, Response to the Education Crisis in Afghanistan.