This article reviews the recent literature on existing mechanisms that allow for the portability of social security entitlements for migrant workers and finds that North–North migrants have the best access to portability. There is limited coordination between origin and destination countries regarding the portability of social entitlements of South–North migrants. These migrants are dealing with discourses and policies that treat them as second class citizens, even as they are providing much‐needed labour to their host countries. South–South migrants are seeing new regional mechanisms addressing portability. However, many of the impacts of these mechanisms are not yet known. Other knowledge gaps on portability relate to internal and South–South migration, the role of gender and other social identities, migrants’ occupations as well as their legal immigration status.
The Light in Her Eyes is a film by Julia Meltzer and Laura Nix. Its premiere screening sold out at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival. It follows Houda al-Habash, a conservative Muslim preacher, who founded a Qur’an school for girls in Damascus. The film captures feminism in a way that Nix would call “contrary.” In this chapter, Nurulsyahirah Taha reflects on a new definition of feminism that the filmmakers tried to communicate in the documentary. She addresses the “women’s mosque movement” and how it changes the culture and potentially the face of Islam.
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