Effects of migration on women health
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Tarih
2016
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Cilt Başlığı
Yayıncı
Maltepe Üniversitesi
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Özet
Migration is referred to as the process which different people carry out or have to carry out for different reasons and have some various consequences. When the migrating individuals are grouped on male-female basis. There are significant differences between males and females. Such differences are based on division of labors in the family, traditions and customs, roles of men and women defined by the public. lt is observed in the conducted studies that 80% of migrating individuals consist of women and children. lmportant reasons for the woman migration can be listed as job opportunities, marriage, social crisis and war. This situation has a lot of impact on women individuals. Factors such as life styles, languages, traditions and customs of the society to which migration was made, increase the adaptation pressure on the individual. Within this wide range of mass including 200 million people, women migration is observed to seriously increase in the last half century. Approximately half of such immigrants consist of women population, and this ratio even rises up to 70-80% in some countries. The most common reasons for women migration are observed as associational migration, marriage migration, war and job opportunities. Associational migration defines the movement of women who follow the male members migrating for any reason. Women involving in rural-to-urban migration mevoments constitute the most important examples of this situation. ln parallel, another type of migration peculiar to women is the marriage migration. Marriage migration defines the movement of the woman to the place where the person she will constitute the conjugal community resides in. War is among the most common reasons for women migration. The increase in number of Syrian women and children experienced in our country in recent years is one of the most important examples. Job opportunities might be shown as another reason for women migration. Within such opportunities, the fields which are only open to women led to increase an number of migrations. (i.e. maid, prostitution, elder-patient care). Also the process of being housewife is an effect that is only seen on women. Since the women's field of movement is observed more due to differentiation of the environment of migration and cultural diversity, their penetration into the labour force market became difficult and thus housewife role was seen to be adopted more. ln addition to divorce, looking for better life conditions, participating in small trade activities to provide for their families are shown among some reasons for women migration. As we take Turkey into consideration, it is observed that the migrations peculiar to women are economic based migrations. In migrations to big cities, the women work at low paid and low prestigious jobs (housekeeping, house cleaning, elder-patient care, factory labor). Effects of migration are grouped as positive and negative effects. For example, as the result of a migration from a rural with poor health conditions to a city with developed conditions in health, a positive result may be observed in women's health. However, they might encounter with circumstances such as sexual harassment, rape, violence, forced prostitution since they are women and immigrants and, sexually transmitted diseases and psychological problems are observed in individuals. As the result of that, by considering the migration and its effects, challenges and changes mostly affect the group of women.
Açıklama
Anahtar Kelimeler
Woman, Migration, Reason
Kaynak
Maltepe University International Nursing Student Congress 2016
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Künye
Patiroğlu, B. ve Beydağ, K. D. (2016). Effects of migration on women health / Göçün kadın sağlığına etkileri. Maltepe University International Nursing Student Congress 2016, Maltepe Üniversitesi. s. 12-15.
