Gender, migration, and work: Portuguese women in Luxembourg

Female migrants have long been neglected in migration studies and this paper therefore reconditions the intra-European migration of young women between the 1980s and 1990s by using the case study of Portuguese women in Luxembourg. While today’s discussion around the feminization of migration increasingly considers gender as a hidden cause of migration, earlier studies on female migration neglect this aspect. Although many women migrate to escape gender ideologies in their home country, they often end up being trapped in similar hierarchies in their receiving countries. This paper thus explores... Mehr ...