Feminist Approaches to Global Migration

Background

According to Smith and Hamon (2017), feminism is “the search for rights, opportunities, and identities and women believe they deserved” (p. 310). The Seneca Falls Convention started feminism in the United States in 1848, and the right to vote was fought by Susan Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Smith & Hamon, 2017). Smith and Hamon (2017) noted that feminist theory is also rooted in the feminist movement. Whereas White, Martin, and Adamson (2019) posited that the feminist theory came from a social movement and provided an understanding of the different variations that existed. White et al. (2019) mentioned that equal rights were the feminist focus during the 19^th century, while throughout the 20^th- century, attention was given to diverse areas such as female physiology, mothering, female nurturance, and culture of feminist (White et al., 2019). White et al. (2019) discussed that the social movement was divided into two phases by many researchers. Phase one included the recognition of the universal suffrage by many governments from the early 1920s to the 1980s and the early 2020s. The 1930s depression, the war, and the reconstructions in 1940 reflect the women’s movement activities. The second phase was from the 1960s to the 20^th century, and the 1960s focused on personal liberation and equality (White et al., 2019). White et al. (2019) posited that there is a third wave today that focuses on women and poststructuralism.