‘Migration and Gender Empowerment: Recent trends and emerging issues’, Human Development Research Paper 2009/4 by Jayati Ghosh, explores the increasing significance of women as national and international migrants, and how the complex relationship between migration and human development now operates in gender differentiated ways. The process of migration, and how that can be gender-differentiated, is discussed with particular reference to the various types of female migration that are common: marriage migration, family migration, forced migration, migration for work. These can be further disaggregated into legal and irregular migration, all of which affect the issues and problems of women migrants in the process of migration and in the destination country. The manifold and complex gendered effects of migration are discussed with reference to varied experiences. Women migrants’ relations with the sending households and the issues relevant for returning migrants are also considered. The final section provides some recommendations for public policy for migration through a gender lens.
