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Are migration motives and remittances behavior different for women?
Migration is a strategy followed by women when they face poverty or when they widowed or divorced. In India, women mainly migrate because they get married. In other countries women migrate to get...
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International Women’s Day: How Do Female Migrants Contribute to their Home...
The New York Times recently featured an article on the contribution of female migrants to their families and to their countries of origin and destination. According to the Times, “Eleven years into the...
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Last week we heard an excellent presentation of a report - Girls on the Move: Adolescent Girls & Migration in the Developing World - recently published by the Population Council. The topic of...
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(In observance of the International Migrants Day)Gender discrimination, combined with migrant status, can make access to appropriate employment harder for female migrants. Employment tends to be...
View ArticleCall for Papers: Forced displacement and gender issues
Background Forced displacement is a multifaceted phenomenon caused by persecution, conflict, repression, natural and human-made disasters, ecological degradation and other situations that directly...
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