Abstract
Migration is part of fishers’ livelihood strategies, and the topic of ‘migration and fisheries’ has gained considerable attention from researchers. Previous works identified negative and positive impacts of migrant fishers on local communities. However, little attention has been given to how social relationships are actually built between migrant fishers and local residents. This paper is based on observations of daily life and social connections in a coastal village in Okinawa, Japan and aims to fill this gap. It also provides a picture of how relationships between migrant fishers and host communities are built. Fieldwork yielded the following results. 1) Migrants moved to Okinawa in various phases; 2) Through their fishing activities, they have established good relationships with other fishers and non-fishing residents; 3) Sharing and selling fishery products has helped migrant fishers and their families gain socio-cultural knowledge and learn about the social conventions of the community, enabling them to integrate themselves into the social fabric of local community life.
Highlights
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations emphasizes in their Voluntary Guidelines for Small-Scale Fisheries (FAO 2015) that gender equality
Women and men are equal in the eyes of the law Guarantees equal opportunities in policies, programs, projects, and instruments Orders that any planning for the national development and public federal administration has to be based on equality of rights between women and men Establishes that in the programming, budgeting, approval, exercise, control, and evaluation of federal income and public expenditures the administration of resources is carried out with accountability and gender equality, among other criteria Guarantees a life with equal opportunities and without violence for women
We will examine the impact of Comunidad y Biodiversidad (COBI)’s actions aimed at increasing the roles and participation of women in conservation and sustainable fisheries through the lens of empowerment developed by Kabeer (1999), and how this supported collective action and gender equality
Summary
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations emphasizes in their Voluntary Guidelines for Small-Scale Fisheries (FAO 2015) that gender equality. The low number of recognized female roles and contributions is one factor driving the exclusion of women in fisheries management decision-making processes It is the focus on women and gender equality that is missing, and a stronger focus on knowledge, vision, fairness, governance gender balance, and creative solutions to addressing marine environmental issues through collective action initiatives. There are general policies in Mexico to promote women’s empowerment and to achieve gender equality in the daily life of the country (Table 1) These policies were a cross-cutting strategy of the National Development Plan 2013–2018 (Gobierno de la Republica 2013), which reflected the implementation of gender mainstreaming strategies proposed by the United Nations (UN) at the 1995 Beijing Women’s Conference. This is an issue that needs to be systematically assessed in the context of Mexican fisheries
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