Article written by 2011 DPDF Migration and Gender Studies Research Directors Katharine M. Donato and Donna Gabaccia, Jennifer Holdaway, Martin Manalansan IV, and Patricia R. Pessar:

This special issue of the International Migration Review presents the findings of the SSRC’s Working Group on Gender and Migration. The study of immigration and migration has become more interdisciplinary, and women-centered research has shifted toward, and to some degree has been supplanted by, the analysis of gender. This issue is therefore a multidisciplinary review that focuses on gender rather than on women, and includes surveys of anthropology, sociology and sexuality studies undertaken by scholars whose geographical specialties reach beyond the United States to Asia, Latin America, Africa and Europe.