ABSTRACT
For nearly twenty years, migration studies in advanced Western European societies have concentrated on contemporary labour migration flows largely as a source of low wage labour (see for instance Castles and Kosack 1973; Castells 1975; Carchedi 1979). More recently, some research has focused on the female component of these migrations and how minority women have played an important and gender specific role within this lowwage labour force (see the different contributions to Phizacklea (ed.) 1983). It is argued elsewhere that this ‘political economy of labour migration’ perspective constitutes a reasonably distinct literature, in so far as those who advocate such a perspective work within a largely Marxist or Marxist-feminist tradition (Phizacklea 1984).
