Date : 2019-02-20

Time : 18:00-20:00

Venue : Room 209B Cheung Yu Tung Bldg., The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Exit B, University Station)

Details:

Speakers:
• Linda Wong (Barrister)
• Sealing Cheng (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• Eni Lestari (Chairperson, International Migrants Alliance)
Language: English (with simultaneous interpretation to Cantonese)

Objective:

Migrant women face multiple practical, legal, and structural barriers from accessing essential services and social justice to which they are entitled. Deeply entrenched discriminatory attitudes, norms, and practices towards migrant women further limit their access to justice. As a result, immigrant women, migrant workers, asylum-seeking women are often trapped in the vicious cycle of abuse, exploitation, and threat of criminalization.

Taking into consideration the diversity of ethnicity, national origin, and immigration status of migrant women in Hong Kong, this seminar aims to:

1) assess the current conditions of migrant women in accessing justice,

2) examine good practices of empowering migrant women to exercise their legal entitlements, and

3) generate suggestions on how to create an enabling environment for women under different forms of migration to access institutional justice.

Rundown:

Part 1: Gender perspective on institutional justice under transnational status

Part 2: Case sharing on migrant women accessing institutional justice

Part 3: Generating suggestions how to improve the social and legal systems for migrant women in accessing justice

Enquiry: Tel:3943-8775 Email: grcentre@cuhk.edu.hk
Sponsor: Chung Chi College, CUHK