Reframing the Migration Question: An Analysis of Men, Women and Gender in Mexico
Author(s)
Kanaiaupuni, Shawn Malia
Abstract
The migration literature agrees on several key factors that motivate individual decisions to move: human capital investments, socioeconomic status, familial considerations, social networks, and local opportunities in places of origin relative to opportunities abroad. Yet further analysis of the social forces underlying these relationships reveals interwoven gender relations and expectations that fundamentally differentiate migration patterns, in particular who migrates and why.
