Migrant Women in Europe Article

Published: Friday, February 29, 2008

Despite the fact that migrant women make up nearly half of the migrant population worldwide there is "remarkably little reliable information about women as migrants"2. Research on immigration has for a long time focused on the male migrant worker, reinforcing a model of migrant woman only expected to assist her husband and children, with no independent status (family reunification). As stated in the European Commission's reflection paper 'Migration and public perception", this "static model does not correspond to the reality of the majority ofmigrant families (and) contributes to keep women migrants out of the official labour market, and to undermine the benefits for the receiving society of the empowerment process entered into by migrant women".

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