Gender and Migration in Developing Countries

Gender and Migration in Developing Countries

Chant, Sylvia (London School of Economics and Political Science)

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

04/1992

224

Dura

Inglês

9780471945062

0471945064

600

A thorough study of gender-related migration in developing countries using a range of case studies in a theoretical framework. Puts forward new guidelines for the comparative analysis of the causes and consequences of gender selectivity in migrant flows.
Migration and development - the importance of gender, Sylvia Chant and Sarah Radcliffe; mountains, maidens and migration - gender and mobility in Peru, Sarah Radcliffe; migration at the margins - gender, poverty and population on the Costa Rican periphery, Sylvia Chant; gender selectivity in Caribbean migration, Janet Momsen; Ghanaian women in the migration process, Lynne Brydon; women who move, women who stay - perspectives on rural-urban migration among the agricultural peoples of Central and Western Kenya, Nici Nelson; purdah, patriarchy and population movement - perspectives from Bangladesh, Jane Pryer; changing socio-economic roles of Thai women and their migration, Anchalee Singhanetra-Renard and Nitaya Pradhudhanitisam; women on the move - changing patterns of population movement of women in Indonesia, Graeme Hugo; conclusion - towards a framework for the analysis of gender-selective migration, Sylvia Chant.
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