As people, we all want to live our lives, experience the world and travel to any place that we want to go to. However, females may have a tough time doing that. Female immigrants face all the issues that confront male immigrants, including low wages, ethnic hatred and hazardous working conditions. Women are, however, also confronted by additional conditions because of their gender. They are especially vulnerable to being battered, either by a spouse, a partner or an employer, the Family Violence Prevention Fund reports.
Battered immigrant women who flee their abusers may not have access to bilingual support services, financial assistance or food, the Family Violence Prevention Fund reports.
When al of this happens, it then causes more and more immigrant women to leave their children behind in their home countries, forcing them to live torn between the need to provide for their family economically or emotionally, according to Legal Momentum. They do this because it is the only choice that they have, in order for their kids to not suffer.
Ten percent of migrants being held in detention are now female, and that percentage is rising, Human Rights Watch reports.
The medical care provided to female detainees--related to their reproductive health--is dangerously inadequate and fails to live up to international standards. Immigrant women, after a short stay in the United States, quickly begin to experience higher maternal death rates and low birth weight and premature infants.
Battered and trafficked women face a bewildering series of special visas and residency rules: the U Visa, Violence Against Women Act petitions and female genital mutilation asylum petitions, Legal Momentum reports. This goes to show how unfair the world and the system it to females just because of their gender. But if it was males, all would be totally different.
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