Global Changes and Gendered Responses

The Feminization of Migration from Georgia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11385751
AutoresErin Trouth Hofmann (0000-0003-0985-5008, Utah State University, autor de correspondencia), Cynthia J Buckley (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Cynthia Buckley (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Año2013
Volumen47
Número3
Páginas508-538
Fecha de publicación2013-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Migration Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0197-9183 • E-ISSN: 1747-7379
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1111/imre.12035
OpenAlexW1954124967
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas32
Referencias citadas67

While frequently discussed, the feminization of migration remains among the least understood trends in migration literature. Existing research links feminization of migration to socioeconomic change in migrant origin countries, changes in destination-country labor markets, structural factors, and changing social attitudes. However, questions of how the feminization of migration begins and how it becomes socially institutionalized remain largely unanswered. Having experienced a recent, dramatic increase in female migration, Georgia provides an excellent case to study the emergence of women's labor migration. Our findings highlight the importance of human capital, increasing divorce rates, and an absence of local economic opportunities in motivating increasing numbers of women to migrate. Additionally, changing destination patterns and shifts in labor-market demand toward feminized occupations act as key initial conditions enabling the growth of women's migration. As migration is feminized, cultural beliefs stigmatizing female migrants can be renegotiated to frame women's migration within normative gender approaches, providing pathways for cultural maintenance. In the early stages of the feminization of migration, we find the initial attempts to reframe migration are powerful; they can challenge, or at least delay, the expansion of women's autonomy that is often associated with migration

Cognitive reframing · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Feminization (sociology · Human capital · Political science · Population · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Demography · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology