Gender issues of migration

1. Are opportunities equal for both women and men in the home country?
2. Do sex-segregated labor markets mean only men can find jobs, or that jobs for women are restricted to less-skilled and lower-paid job types?
3. What compels women to migrate?
4. Is it poverty and seeking economic betterment, or gender discrimination or violence?
5. Do gender norms and policies restrict women’s ability to move or pressurize men to move?
6. How are decisions to move affected by household gender and power dynamics?
7. Are women empowered by migration or put at greater risk or both?
8. Does the home country context or do the restrictive immigration policies of receiving countries make women vulnerable to trafficking?
9. In the event of displacement, are women affected differently from men? They may have less economic resources to cope with displacement.
10. Where provisions/support are provided for the displaced, who are they provided to? If provided only to the “head of family” this may discriminate against women. If provided to women as well as men, this may promote greater gender equality.