IntroductionPart I: Gendered structures and relations1. Labour migration from South Caucasus: A lost chance for women’s empowerment Alina Poghosyan2. ‘Marriage of convenience’ regulations in Portugal: Gendered constructions of (il)legality Marianna Bacci Tamburlini3. Immigration controls creating highly skilled precarious workers: South American migrant women’s and men’s professional trajectories in the care and academic sectorsRomina Seminario Luna4. Cyber space: a refuge for hegemonic masculinity among Polish migrants in the UK Kamila Fiałkowska5. Future: Nowhere? – Stories of young Roma girls from Neapolitan peripheriesKitti BaracsiPart II: Migration trajectories: Origins and destinations 6. Gender discrimination as a driver of female migration 149Ilse Ruyssen and Sara Salomone7. Foreign domestic servants in Antwerp: A comparative regional approach on female migration trajectories to nineteenth-century European cities Thomas Verbruggen and Hilde Greefs8. The vulnerable refugee woman, from Damascus to Brussels 195Alexandra Parrs9. Women in Mediterranean asylum flows: Current scenario and ways forward Milena Belloni, Ferruccio Pastore and Christiane Timmerman10. Gendered migration aspirations in Turkey: The importance of the ‘culture of migration’ Christiane Timmerman, Zeynep Zümer Batur and Lore Van PraagConclusionAbout the authorsThe impact of gender on migration processesConsidering the dynamic and reciprocal relationship between gender relations and migration, the contributions in this book approach migration dynamics from a gender-sensitive perspective. Bringing together insights from various fields of study, it is demonstrated how processes of social change occur differently in distinct life domains, over time, and across countries and/or regions, influencing the relationship between gender and migration. Detailed analysis by regions, countries, and types of migration reveals a strong variation regarding levels and features of female and male migration. This approach enables us to grasp the distinct ways in which gender roles, perceptions, and relations, each embedded in a particular cultural, geographical, and socioeconomic context, affect migration dynamics. Hence, this volume demonstrates that gender matters at each stage of the migration process. In its entirety, 'Gender and Migration' gives evidence of the unequivocal impact of gender and gendered structures, both at a micro and macro level, upon migrant’s lives and of migration on gender dynamics.Considering the dynamic and reciprocal relationship between gender relations and migration, the contributions in this book approach migration dynamics from a gender-sensitive perspective. Bringing together insights from various fields of study, it is demonstrated how processes of social change occur differently in distinct life domains, over time, and across countries and/or regions, influencing the relationship between gender and migration. Detailed analysis by regions, countries, and types of migration reveals a strong variation regarding levels and features of female and male migration. This approach enables us to grasp the distinct ways in which gender roles, perceptions, and relations, each embedded in a particular cultural, geographical, and socioeconomic context, affect migration dynamics. Hence, this volume demonstrates that gender matters at each stage of the migration process. In its entirety, Gender and Migration gives evidence of the unequivocal impact of gender and gendered structures, both at a micro and macro level, upon migrant’s lives and of migration on gender dynamics.