ABSTRACT

The feminization of migration is seen in that nearly half of international migrants in 2015 were women. The literature linking remittances, gender roles, women's empowerment and the transnational family is uneven. There are two themes. The first relates to women's roles in sending, receiving and using remittances in the household. The second focuses on migration and the changing gender of money. This chapter also addresses the way meanings and practices around gender and money change with migration. It is the intersection of changes in money and family that are at the centre of the author's qualitative research on Indian migrants in Australia. The chapter shows how these differences in the socio-economic background and migration environment of the early and recent migrants contributed to changes in money flows, the gender of money and the reimagining of the joint family.