TY  - CHAP
AB  - What is the role of the state in gendering transnational migration? Although a central question to studies of the migration–gender nexus, Pessar and Mahler (2003) maintain that our existing knowledge concerning this relationship is still rudimentary (cf. Hondagneu-Sotelo, 2003). In the few studies that have sought to uncover this dynamic, the investigative focus has been on the role of sending countries. For instance, in Goldring's (2001) classic study, we learned that Mexican state policies/programmes have contributed to biasing political representation of the two sexes in favour of men in transnational spaces. Similarly, Tyner (1999) uncovered the importance of national policies in gendering migration from the Philippines. He reported that the government's decision to pursue an economic strategy premised on export of labour has effectively ensured that its citizens fulfilled the gendered roles specified by foreign demands (i.e. men for construction in the Middle East, and women for domestic work in Asia) (Tyner, 1999, pp. 683–684).1
VL  - 10
SN  - 978-1-78052-202-9, 978-1-78052-203-6/2041-806X
DO  - 10.1108/S2041-806X(2012)0000010006
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S2041-806X(2012)0000010006
AU  - Chou Meng-Hsuan
ED  - Ragnhild Aslaug Sollund
PY  - 2012
Y1  - 2012/01/01
TI  - Chapter 2 EU Mobility Partnerships and Gender: Origin and Implications
T2  - Transnational Migration, Gender and Rights
T3  - Advances in Ecopolitics
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 11
EP  - 31
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -