ABSTRACT
Migration is an extremely dynamic process and gender ratios can change over time. Despite the mentioned gender role and economic restrictions, women participate in transnational migration. Among the many factors that facilitate women's participation in transnational migration, research has also focused on conditions in the host-country. Feminist immigration research focused on the importance of gender roles in the immigration process. Feminist scholars demonstrated that women do participate in immigration and that they are active in the actual decision making process to immigrate. The historical-structural approach has been criticized for emphasizing women's role in production and neglecting women's reproductive roles. The historical-structural approach has had diverse proponents and includes a variety of explanatory models such as dependency theory, the center-periphery model and global accumulation. However, it focuses entirely on economic factors and excludes non-economic factors that influence migration patterns.
