Introduction

In a short paper presented to the British limited life Migration Research Network a few years ago, one of the current authors (Halfacree 1993) argued that the interface between migration and gender remained ‘a neglected area of research’. This was in spite of the substantial leaps made in both feminist scholarship and the study of human migration over the previous couple of decades. Moreover, this neglected status of geography and gender was seen to be especially acute with respect to work undertaken in so-called developed nations, since much more recognition has been paid to gender-specific migration patterns and processes in the developing world (see Chant 1992; Lawson 1998).