Resumen de Introduction. Bringing gender into migration
Umut Erel, Mirjana Morokvasic, Kyoko Shinozaki
Migrations are complex world-wide phenomena — for millennia people have moved in search of a better livelihood or political climate, have fled from persecutions and pogroms or have been displaced when new nation states were created or existing ones disintegrated. Migration patterns and processes, the experiences of migrants, as well as the social, political, economic and cultural impact of their migration are gendered. Under the influence of feminist inquiry about the position of women in society and in gender hierarchies, migration scholarship has slowly moved away from male centred universalism — a perspective in which women either remain invisible or are considered as dependents. The times when migration was considered to be an all male phenomenon, and the ‘mainstream’ was a ‘malestream,’ have been long forgone. It is now common knowledge that migrations world-wide are ‘increasingly feminised,’ a sine qua non assertion in scholarly work and in international reports on migration.
