The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Migration

The handbook offers a timely report and comprehensive review of gendered migration. A great toolkit for the study of increased mobilities and persistent Inequalities in today's world.Pei-Chia Lan, Director of Global Asia Research Center, National Taiwan University  The editors have produced a very exciting handbook demonstrating the breadth and depth of the field of Gender Studies and Migration Studies. It represents a very welcome addition to the growing literature and covers a wide range of traditional and emerging topics and debates. This handbook also offers an impressive global coverage.Eleonore Kofman, Professor of Gender, Migration and Citizenship, Middlesex University London.This handbook adopts a distinctively global and intersectional approach to gender and migration, as social class, race and ethnicity shape the process of migration in its multiple dimensions. A large range of topics exploring gender, sexuality and migration are presented, including feminist migration research, care, family, emotional labour, brain drain and gender, parenting, gendered geographies of power, modern slavery, women and refugee law, masculinities, and more. Scholars from North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania delve into institutional, normative, and day-to-day practices conditioning migrants´ rights, opportunities and life chances based on material from around the world.This handbook will of great interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including Women's and Gender Studies, Sociology, Sexuality Studies, Migration Studies, Politics, Social Policy, Public Policy, Area StudiesClaudia Mora is Professor and Senior Researcher at the Technological Society and Human Future Center, Universidad Mayor, in Santiago de Chile.Nicola Piper is Professor of International Migration and British Academy Global Professor Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, UK.