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Voluntary & Forced Migration

How can policy and practice foster the positive potential of migration and mitigate the risks? Around half of international migrants are women. They have differing needs and face differing risks to men. This theme explores the gender implications of voluntary and forced migration, including as a result of overseas employment, trafficking, and conflict.

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Gender and Migration Cutting Edge Pack

How does migration advance or impede gender equality? How can policy-makers and practitioners promote gender equality in work on migration? Migration can bring new opportunities for greater gender equality and a better life, for those migrating and those they leave behind. It can have positive impacts on sending and receiving areas. However, migration also brings risks, and may entrench inequalities around gender.


Documents on Migration (186)

  1. Website: Programme ‘La Strada’- Belarus (in English and Russian)

    , Jan 2009
    The La Strada programme in Belarus understands the problem of trafficking as a severe violation of human rights, in order to solve which a complex interdisciplinary approach should be applied, ...more

  2. Gender and Migration: Overview Report

    Author: Susie Jolly;Hazel Reeves, BRIDGE, Jan 2005
    In 2000, 1 in every 35 people was an international migrant and half of these were women. The total numbers of people moving internally and the proportions of women among ...more

  3. Farmers in a changing climate: does gender matter?

    Author: Y. Lambrou;S. Nelson, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , Jan 2010
    Is there a strong gender dimension to experiences with climate variability and coping strategies? This publication on the topic of food security in Andrha Pradesh, India finds that there is. ...more

  4. Sex, Race, Class and Mobility and the Neo-Liberal Labour Market : Armed Men and Service Women

    Author: J Falquet, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, Jan 2005
    Since the 1970's neo-liberal globalisation has led to growing segmentation of labour markets on the basis of race, class, and sex, under the influence of national and international migrations. The ...more

  5. Baseline Survey on Anti-trafficking Needs

    Author: P. Singh Rana et al. , Saathi, Jul 2007
    Human trafficking has become a highly lucrative global business identified as the third highest profit making business, after drugs and arms dealing. For Nepal, trafficking of children, girls and women ...more

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