In 2006, the United Nations reported on the “feminization” of migration, noting that the
number of female migrants had doubled over the last five decades. Likewise, global …

Despite this being the era of migration, no systematic theory of international migration has
emerged, nor is there an academic or political agreement on ways in which migration is a …

This chapter explores the key historical drivers of women's migration from within both
sending nations and receiving societies. The key to understanding the increased …

Global careers and highly skilled expatriates employing their talent in diverse contexts of the
world tend to be conceptualized as “male”, and recognized diplomas represent …

Gender roles, relations, and ideologies are major aspects of migration. This timely book
argues that understanding gender relations is vital to a full and more nuanced explanation of …

Using data from a structured survey and in-depth interviews in three Russian cities, our
study engages the scholarship on immigration legal regimes and racialization practices to …

Summary Using the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) from the OECD
Development Centre, this paper provides evidence on the two-way relationship between …

Migration is humming with activity and fuelled by the changing nature of typologies,
geographies, drivers and, more importantly, changing soceities. At the same time,'migration' …

Across the Western world, the air is filled with talk of immigration. The changes brought by
immigration have triggered a renewed fervor for isolationism able to shutter political …

Recent studies suggest that the employment rates of foreign-born women are related to
cultural norms regarding gender and work in their origin countries. However, origin-country …