Gender and Migration

Migracijske i etničke teme / Migration and Ethnic Themes, 2015

Migration patterns, migration discourse and underlying representations, migrants’ experiences, obligations and duties as well as the expectations relative to their migration are gendered. Since the pioneering feminist migration scholars’ questioning of men as a universal reference and the invisibility of women or their stereotypical representations as dependents in the mainstream production of knowledge on migration, the scholarship has evolved considerably. It is argued in the paper that the ongoing process of cross-fertilization of developments in two separate epistemologies, each initially questioning monolithic and essentialist visions of a “migrant” on one hand and a “woman” on the other, produced a fecund subfield of research “migration and gender”. The paper provides an insight into this, reviewing work on the issues related to gendering different phases of migration. Bridging migration and gender brought to the top of research agendas issues that used to be on the margins, c...

Revista Interdisciplinar Da Mobilidade Humana, 2007

2016

This Overview Report on Gender and Migration takes a broad approach to migration – it looks at the gender dynamics of both international and the lesser-researched internal migration and the interconnections between the two. People may choose to migrate, or have no choice, or the decision may fall somewhere on the continuum between the two. This report therefore covers both forced and voluntary migration, including covering economic and other voluntary migrants, refugees and internally displaced persons and trafficked people. These migrants in turn come through regular (conforming to legal requirements) or irregular channels.

It has been close to four decades since the discussion on the links between gender and migration was explicitly put forward by scholars. Since then, numerous research projects and publications have centered on this interaction, generating abundant empirical evidence and theoretical discussions.1 “Engendering” migration studies made visible the participation of women as active actors in the migration process in different ways, both at the origin and destination sites. It also broadened the scope of migration research as it was paralleled by a discussion around family and human mobility, integrating the participation of other members of the family into the migration process (for example, exploring the reorganization of roles and responsibilities and the transformation of family relations when one or more members of the household migrate). The cumulative knowledge on migration and gender can be grouped broadly (but not exhaustively) in four main questions: (1) to what extent migration transforms gender relations and women’s status; (2) the particular role of women in international labor markets, which differs from that of male migrants and which is linked to gender ideologies; (3) the transformation in family formation, dynamics and arrangements due to the mobility of men and women (and how it transforms gender relations); (4) the potential change in women’s situation when the migration process increases their participation in the public sphere. These questions have been studied either from the perspective of the communities of origin or of destination. Keywords Gender and migration – Family and migration – Feminization of migration – Family life cycle – Marriage migration – Labor migration.

2020

The collective book Gender and Migration. A Gender-Sensitive Approach to Migration Dynamics introduces a gender-sensitive analytical framework to study migration. It provides an interdisciplinary overview of empirical studies from various disciplines and research methods, carried out in different European countries. The text intends to point out and explore the multifaceted relationship between gender and migration, filling the gap in migration research, which has traditionally disregarded or underestimated the specific experiences of migrant women.

2018

Migrations "Represent a change in permanent residence , often of a year or more in duration, and it involves a geographical move that croses a political boundary". There are two common forms: international and internal migrations.(Turner 2006: 384). Gender dimension of migrations involves gender vs. migration interpolation focusing onto the statistic about male vs.female migrants in the world migrations. Even though there are cases where the feminisation of migrations is evidant, there is also masculinisation of migration especially in single cases of internal migrations. Gender based theory of imigration is connected with binary dichotomies/divisions of modern period that are connected with ancient Aristotelian perspective, and represent the obstacle to postmodern vision of society, male and female, ethnicity, and bread winning dillema. Modern vs. Postmodern dichotomies involve dichotomy inside the concept of girlhood, good/bad girl behaviour. Danielle Egan argues that pa...

United International Journal for Research & Technology, 2020

Although frequently addressed, the concept of feminization of migration remains insufficiently researched. Contrary to the common belief that feminization of migration is an increase in the proportion of women in the overall number of migrants; this article aims at nuancing the misunderstood concept of feminization of migration, through distinguishing between feminization of migration process and feminization of research on migration.

2015

The essay discusses, according to the authors and theories reviewed in the Gendering Migration and Diasporas class of the the gender and law LLM in SOAS - University on London, how can transnational migration bring social transformation for women’s lives; and how can women’s social, political and economic empowerment and emancipation reinforce a redefinition of gendered positionings. The approach to these questions makes visible the many contradictions that women experience in diasporic and migrating processes.

The Politics of Women and Migration in the Global South, 2017