Gender and Migration: An Overview

This chapter summarizes the development of migration research and theory and describes the growing attention to the "genderedness" of migration processes, including rural in- and out-migration. It is argued that taking gender into account is necessary to understand the economic and social factors that prompt women to migrate on their own or together with men. It is also important to recognize that rural gender relations affect migration streams into and out of rural areas, and are, vice versa, shaped by migration processes.