Mapping Gender and Migration in Sociological Scholarship: Is It Segregation or Integration?

From: The International Migration Review | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: Donato, Katharine M; Garip, Filiz; Shafer, Steven; Curran, Sara R | Copyright information

A review of the sociological research about gender and migration shows the substantial ways in which gender fundamentally organizes the social relations and structures influencing the causes and consequences of migration. Yet, although a significant sociological research has emerged on gender and migration in the last three decades, studies are not evenly distributed across the discipline. In this article, we map the recent intellectual history of gender and migration in the field of sociolog...

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