How do female migration and gender discrimination in social ...

This paper provides evidence of the two-way relationship between gender inequality in social institutions and South-South migration.

How migration is a gender equality issue - UN Women

Women migrate for diverse reasons: from leaving behind poverty, conflict and climate-related disasters to escaping deeply entrenched gender inequalities, ...

Gender Thematic Page | Migration data portal

Despite these improvements, female migrants may still face greater discrimination, are more vulnerable to mistreatment, and can experience double discrimination ...

Migrant Women Face more Difficulties to Regularize and Integrate ...

A key element in addressing this issue is that many women migrate as dependents by marriage, a migratory status that, in most countries, does ...

How do female migration and gender discrimination in social ...

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

How do female migration and gender discrimination in social

Gender inequality appears to be both a pull and a push factor for migrant women. On one hand, higher gender discrimination at home reduces female emigration, ...

Gender and Migration

Gender influences reasons for migrating, who migrates and to where, how people migrate and the networks they use, opportunities and resources available at ...

WOMEN AND INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION - the United Nations

Gender inequality can be a powerful factor leading to migration when women have economic, political and social expectations that cannot be realized in the ...

Women and Migration - from the School for Policy Studies

As individuals who face double discrimination due to their status as both women and migrants, migrant women face complex challenges with some of ...

Migration and Gender | UNICEF

In Latin America and the Caribbean, girls and adolescent girls on the move are exposed to risks and violations of their human rights. They also face greater ...

South–South Migration and Discrimination Against Women in Social ...

On the one hand, discriminatory social institutions in both origin and destination countries are an additional determinant of female migration. On the other ...

Migrant and refugee women and girls - Gender Equality

Many migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls have been exposed to various forms of gender-based violence, either in their country of origin, during ...

Why Increasing Female Migration from Gender-Unequal Countries ...

Amongst women, perceived discrimination in countries of origin is a strong incentive explaining the intent to migrate. However, actual ...

How Female Migration Can Reduce Gender Inequality

This suggests that migration may help transmit liberal norms to migrants' home countries and challenge gender-based social discrimination. This ...

Womenwatch: Gender Equality and Trade Policy - the United Nations

The participation of women in migration flows depends greatly on their social roles, their autonomy, their access to resources, and the existing gender ...

The Social Construction of Migrant Care Work At the intersection of ...

This publication examines the implications of migration in the care economy and its effects on women's economic empowerment and gender equality.

A gender perspective on the global migration of scholars - PNAS

We find that, while female researchers continued to be underrepresented among internationally mobile researchers and migrate over shorter ...

Struggling to Survive: Gender, Displacement, and Migration ... - CSIS

The higher costs mean women are usually priced out of irregular migration even when they face serious risk to their lives and rights. There are ...

Female migration: A way out of discrimination? - ScienceDirect.com

Perceived gender discrimination hence positively affects the size of potential female migration. Whether those intentions are subsequently turned into action is ...

The role of discriminatory social institutions in female South ... - OECD

Women tend to migrate to countries with similar or lower levels of discrimination. Migration patterns, choices and outcomes are not gender neutral. There are ...