Gender and Migration

Understood as a social construction of femininity and masculinity and inequalities consequent upon these constructions, gender fundamentally influences migration and its impacts on societies and individuals. It shapes migration processes at different levels: who migrates, why, where, for how long and with what consequences? Gender ideologies also (often implicitly) form migration policies and institutions which try to control migration flows.

This thematic section aims at discussing gender and migration at different levels of analysis and asks how gender differentiates migrants’ experiences, formation of migrant women’s and men’s identities and how it permeates migration practices, policies and institutions.

Photograph by Jozef Ondzik (project "How many paths to Florenc?").

Articles

Inserting Feminism in Transnational Migration Studies
22. 5. 09 | Rhacel Salazar Parreñas

“I don’t want to have a boss over my head”: Changing patterns of paid domestic work among Albanian women in Athens
15. 4. 08 | Angeliki Athanasopoulou

Binational Marriages and Czech Immigration Policy: Sorting Truth from Fiction?
15. 2. 08 | Marie Jelínková, Alice Szczepaniková

The Lady and the Maid: Racialised Gender Relations in Greek-Cypriot Households
16. 11. 07 | Ramona Lenz

Migration as Gendered and Gendering Process: A Brief Overview of the State of Art and a Suggestion for Future Directions in Migration Research
28. 3. 06 | Alice Szczepaniková

Research reports and studies

Fomacs Retrospective - The Story So Far
11. 11. 11

OSCE Guide on Gender-Sensitive Labour Migration Policies
20. 9. 09

INTERFACE - Immigrants and National Integration Strategies: Developing a Trans-European Framework for Analysing Cultural and Employment-Related Integration
3. 10. 08

A special collection of on-line articles on Gendering border crossings in Re-Public!
2. 7. 08

Recent Polish Migrants in London: Social networks, transience and settlement
8. 1. 08 | Louise Ryan, Rosemary Sales, Mary Tilki, Bernadetta Siara