ABSTRACT
Gender and migration research has flourished in the last four decades, and has evolved from initial work that used the “add women and stir” approach to a theoretical lens that conceptualizes gender as a system of relations that shapes all aspects of the migration experience. There remains, though, substantial segregation between “gender and migration” research and migration that intersects across other fields (such as race, citizenship studies, etc.). Gender and migration scholars make several different arguments for why migration researchers have not widely integrated a gender analysis into their work. In this chapter, I briefly describe the development of gender and migration research, revisiting my earlier work. I then outline the explanations for why gender has not been integrated into the field beyond these areas, and suggest ways that this could be remedied.
