Special Issue: Women and Migration
This first Special Issue is dedicated to understanding the complex relationship between migration and gender. As one contributor writes, the migration of women "has raised both prospects and pains." This issue takes a closer look at both sides of the migration coin for women.
Women and Migration: Incorporating Gender into International Migration Theory
Migration theory has grown more gender-sensitive since the 1960s but gaps remain.
Gender and the Symbiosis Between Refugee Law and Human Rights Law
Legal approaches that interpret violence against women within human rights norms are helping redefine refugee law.
Asian Women Migrants: Going the Distance, But Not Far Enough
Female labor migration in Asia has surged since the 1970s.
The Global Dimensions of Female Migration
Women have comprised nearly half of all international migrants since 1960; UN data counted 85 million female migrants in 2000.
Building a Gender and Age-Sensitive Approach to Refugee Protection
Women and children made up nearly 70 percent of those under UNHCR's care in 2003, but regional variations exist.
Mothers, Wives, and Workers: Australia's Migrant Women
Australia's skilled-worker push resulted in women accounting for a majority of settling immigrants by June 2002.
Gender, Religion, and Secularism Meet in Germany's Headscarf Battle
A January 2003 German court let a dismissed Muslim teacher return wearing a headscarf, as a constitutional dispute over the issue advances to Germany…
Sex Ratios of the Foreign Born in the United States
The U.S. foreign-born population had a balanced sex ratio of 101 in 2002, but ratios ranged from 138 (India) to 64 (Germany), shaped by migration…
Immigrant Women in the United States in 2000
In 2000, immigrant women in the United States tended to be older and more likely to be citizens than foreign-born men, but had higher poverty rates…