Description: Approximately half of all migrants are today are female. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which attention to gender is moving debates away from old theories that have long dominated the field of migration studies.
Review Quotes: ..."the book highlights and makes visible female migrants in international migration by demonstrating that women have long been involved in long-distance migration for work purposes...The book is worth reading for those who are interested in women and migration, feminist study, family and gender studies."
-Noulmook Sutdhibhaslip, "Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de femme