Migración femenina trasnacional. México frente a los tratados internacionales

Abstract

Feminine transnational immigration. Mexico facing international agreements. Even though the immigration shapes vary in form and intensity according to the regions and junctures in the 20th century, the immigrants have been identified as a vulnerable population by international agencies (the League of Nations, the United Nations, the International Labour Organization and the Organization of American States). This vulnerability is essentially up to their rights as workers and more widely as human beings. But women constitute a more vulnerable sector still due to physical and psychological risks mainly that they have to face when they go from one country to another in a legal or illegal way. The analysis of the declarative and vinculative documents ratified or not by Mexico also shows that immigrant women have gradually acquired a greater visibility even if it hasn’t been translated up to now in a total legal and universal protection. KEY WORDS: law, laws, Mexico, immigrant, woman, agreement.