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    Migrant Women’s Vulnerability to Violence: The Case Of Ethiopian Women Domestic Workers Returned from Middle East
    (Addis Ababa University, 2015-02) Getahun, Markos; Alemu, Tenagne(PhD)
    The aim of this research was to assess the Ethiopian migrant women domestic workers’ vulnerability to violence in the ME due to the factors evolved from the home or supplier country side. The factors covered in this study were personal as well as interpersonal skills and qualities of the workers themselves, local institutional capacities which facilitated the employment process and the structural factors attached to the workers like sex, race and others. The study used multi-stage and purposive sampling technique and had 85 returnees from the ME as a sample size. The returnees were residing in temporary shelter and taking skill training in sponsored institutions. This paper employed mixed research designs to draw conclusion from the facts discovered. To attain this objective, the study utilized both interview and questionnaire survey. The interview was made with six key representatives of institutions. The data was analyzed using Factor Analysis Statistical Model. Then the data organized, tabulated, depicted, and described. At the beginning of the findings of each parameter of the study, previous research findings were presented to support and describe the results of this study. Both the quantitative and the qualitative research methods found that the interviewees returned from the ME were vulnerable to violence due to local side factors. Therefore, prospective migrant domestic workers, GOs, NGOs and other stakeholders should play their role to minimize vulnerability of workers to violence