A (in)suficiente proteção de mulheres migrantes e refugiadas no Plano Internacional

Abstract

The present study aims to analyse the possibilities of protecting refugee and immigrant women, exposing their countless challenges, vulnerabilities and discriminations deriving from their migratory processes. In this way, this study is based on the following questioning: considering the hipervulnerabilities of this group, does the existing legal mechanisms give them proper support? In order to answer this wuestions, migratory fluxes and the existing mechanisms for the protection of immigrants and refugees in the international system will be used. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and its committee’s work will also be used as to, hopefully, demonstrate, through the dialogue of sources, the relevance of this instrument. The conclusion reached is that the CEDAW committee, in spite of its immeasurable efforts to make sure immigrant and, specially, refugee women are protected, it still depends on the collaboration on MemberSstates to materialize such condition. Methodologically, a research of normative-descriptive and exploratory nature is carried out, alongside with a qualitative analysis, which will be concluded thorough a deductive method of approach, and also following the documental and bibliographical techniques