HIERARCHICAL HOUSEHOLDS AND GENDERED MIGRATION IN LATIN-AMERICA - FEMINIST EXTENSIONS TO MIGRATION RESEARCH

In this review essay, I argue that migration theory can be advanced by analysing gender differences in migration processes. I bring together feminist empirical work from diverse settings within Latin America in order to illustrate and discuss theoretical extensions to migration r esearch. In particular, the discussion focuses on the centrality of in trahousehold power relations and dynamics for understanding who migrat es, and with what consequences. I further argue that these theoretical understandings emerge from the culturally and historically specific o peration of processes in particular places within Latin America.