ABSTRACT
The expression feminization of migration refers to at least three empirical and theoretical domains. First of all, there is a strong idea about the recency of the phenomenon of female migration. Migrants are here defi ned as persons who live for more than one year in a country other than that of their nationality or birth. Statistics released by the United Nations show that over the past 40 years, women have always constituted about half of the migrant populations (Zlotnik, 2003). Why then is the feminization of migration suddenly an issue of interest? The answer might be an epistemological issue.
