Women And Migrations: Those Who Stay

Abstract

This issue of Échogéo investigates the place of women in international emigration in a range of southern contexts (Central America, Western and Eastern Africa and Southern Asia), with a focus on those who “stay” in the absence of men, and are left behind when the others leave. The role of women in places of emigration has been the object of a number of studies in geography and more broadly in social science from the seventies and eighties, and increasingly so in the nineties. However, in the ...