Introduction

While movements of people across borders have shaped states and societies since time immemorial, what is distinctive in recent years is their global scope, their centrality to domestic and international politics and their enormous economic and social consequences. A vast number of pressure groups have emerged, demanding the singularity of their specific contexts and looking for local versions of history and minority interpretations of this current unstable reality. Accordingly, migration is said to deeply affect the health and well-being, physical and psychical, of migrant women, in relation to their recurrent poor access to healthcare and the different types of illnesses they may be exposed to in the new countries. Migration has helped to see more clearly the patriarchal mechanisms that subjugate women across the globe and the violence they often encounter across these journeys of exile.