Abstract
Women’s knowledge is as old as the world. My goal is to argue for the need to use a gender perspective to investigate not only the feminization of migration in international and transnational migrations, but also other topics in these fields that are not necessarily linked to gender relations.1 My purpose is to propose the methodological importance of applying the gender perspective to all migration topics and not just while dealing with gendered traits of migrants. This approach helps our understanding of the multiple and simultaneous incorporation and construction of identities that transnational migrants experience individually and as members of groups in their home countries and in those countries where they migrate. Such extremely complex realities are not sufficiently ‘captured’ and explained by the migration paradigms that are widely taught by academics today.
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Núñez-Sarmiento, M. (2013). A Gender Approach to Migration Studies. In: Brickner, R.K. (eds) Migration, Globalization, and the State. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137033765_9
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