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Women and International Migration: A Cross-cultural Analysis


Statement of the Problem

International migration is a global phenomenon. There is increasing international
connectivity and flow of information, capital and people. Further, the liberalized immigration policies of some of the developed countries (Zlotnik , 1998:429-430) have accelerated the pace of international migration of both men and women for settlement and temporary residence. Women are an important component of international migration:
nearly half the international migrants are women (Jolly, Bell and Narayanswamy , 2003;
Russell , 1995; United Nations , 1998). The impact of international migration on women, both those migrating and those left behind has been a sorely neglected issue in international migration research (Boyd , 2003). The male bias in this research is undoubtedly based on the assumption that most women migrated for reasons of family reunification. This assumption is epitomized in The ILO......

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