Since the 1980s, labour migration has been increasingly feminized in East and Southeast (hereafter E/SE) Asia. By the … have done through local and transnational networks. Feminized, and therefore gendered, migration in E/SE Asia has its roots … existing gender inequality, economic injustice and ethnic discrimination. International migration is, however, a contradictory …

usually mentioned as main reasons why remote and economically weak regions are affected by selective out-migration and … out-migration of young women from rural areas. This sex-biased out-migration has been ongoing for more than 40 years for … some rural regions in Sweden. This paper is a spin-off product from the ESPON-project SEMIGRA - Selective Migration and …

We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities … women has recently disappeared. We propose that the temporary nature of migration and an earlier return time relative to men … permanent migration, women stayed in school longer. Empirical evidence is consistent with this hypothesis. Marriage motives and …

This paper investigates the impact of migration of male household heads on the autonomy of their spouses. Using panel … endogeneity inherent in the relationship using past migration as the instrument and carefully paying attention to the role of … remittances. We find consistent evidence that male migration increases female self-determination and decision-making power, and …

We study how migration affects education of girls in Tajikistan - the poorest post-Soviet state and one of the most … 2011, we find that the effect of migration on girls' school attendance differs markedly by age. School attendance of young … remittances. In contrast, school attendance of teenage girls (ages 12-17) falls when siblings migrate, while parental migration …

In this paper, we investigate the power of migration as a mechanism in the transmission of social norms, taking Mali … migration. We use an original household-level database coupled with census data to analyze the extent to which girls living in … variable approach to control for the endogeneity of migration and return decisions, we show that return migrants have a …

While scholars have long studied the economics of migration, increasing waves of international and regional migration … around the world have placed greater focus on the varied impacts of migration in recent years. Critical to this line of … various aspects of the relationship between women and migration, including key ways in which non-migrant women are affected by …