Migration, gender and development: constraints and challenges in the European area

The rise of international female migration has experienced considerable growth these past twenty years and was accompanied by multiple effects both on the level of the individual journey of migrant women, as well as on their relationships with their immediate or distant environment regarding issues of equality between men and women. While this new reality is of interest to migration and integration management policies within the European Union, it also highlights a new conceptual framework, one of a dual role held by the migrant woman: a protagonist in economic co-development and social transformation both in the host country and country of origin.