Gender & Development Special Issue on Migration

Drawing on  insights gained over the 13 years since the journal last published an issue on migration – a period which has seen a gradual ‘feminisation’ of migration, and an increased focus on the benefits that migration can bring to development in the ‘sending’ communities - the March 2011 issue of Gender & Development,  brings together research from across a range of countries, and looks at migration not only as a livelihoods strategy, undertaken primarily for economic reasons, but also as a response to crisis, where people have relatively little, or no, option but to leave their homes.

Content:

Remittances and transnational families in Italy and the Philippines: breaking the global care chain
Charito Basa, Wendy Harcourt, and Angela Zarro

Climate change and migration: a case study from rural Bangladesh
Katha Kartiki

Gendering remittances in Albania: a human and social development perspective
Julie Vullnetari and Russell King 

Feminised financial flows in Honduran-US transnational families
Allison J. Petrozziello 

The impact of remittances on gender roles and opportunities for children: research from the International Organization for Migration
Christine Aghazarm, Henriette Kötter, Sylvia Lopez-Ekra, and Blandine Mollard 

Constructing ‘modern gendered civilised’ women and men: gender-mainstreaming in refugee camps
Katarzyna Grabska 

Protecting migrant domestic workers in the UK
Krisnah Poinasamy 

Who cares? HIV related sickness, urban-rural linkages, and the gendered role of care in return migration in South Africa
Lorena Nunez C, Jo Vearey, and Scott Drimie 

The influence of male migration on female resources, independence, and development in Gambian villages
Björn Gunnarsson