Although women migrate across international boundaries at roughly the same rate as men, most international migration scholarship assumes that international migration results primarily from the labour migration of male workers. The few studies which have explored international female migration have focused almost exclusively on the migration of women to work in the low-wage labour sector of the global economy. This volume challenges the simplicity of both of these analyses by exploring the varied and complex ways in which women in a variety of occupational and social categories experience international migration. The chapters in this volume are concerned primarily with the question of whether international migration provides women with opportunities for liberating themselves form subordinate gender roles in their countries of origin and, at the same time, whether migrant women face both traditional and new forms of subordination and discrimination in their host societies.

Introduction: The Invisibility of Women in Scholarship on International Migration; D.L.DeLaet
PART I: THE ECONOMIC STATUS OF INTERNATIONAL FEMALE MIGRANTS
Seeds for Self-Sufficiency? Policy Contradictions at the U.S.-Mexico Border; K.Staudt
Labor Migration and International Sexual Division of Labor: A Feminist Perspective; Shu-Ju A.Cheng
Asian Women in Business in Australia; D.Ip & C.Lever-Tracy
Impact of Immigration Policy and Cultural Norms on Gender Relations Among Indian-American Motel Owners; N.N.Assar
Third World Immigrant Women in American Higher Education; C.G.Manrique & G.Manrique
PART II: THE SOCIAL STATUS OF INTERNATIONAL FEMALE MIGRANTS
Mail Order Brides: The Legal Framework and Possibilities for Change; L.Simons
Sri Lankan Tamil Immigrants in Toronto: Gender, Marriage Patterns and Sexuality; L.Morrison, S.Guruge & K.Snarr
Gender Implications of Immigration: The Case of Russian-Speaking Women in Israel; L.I.Remennick
Social Services for Immigrant Women in European Nations: Including Lessons from the Council of Europe's Project on Human Dignity and Social Exclusion; B.H.Bechtold & L.Dziewiecka-Bokun
Conclusion: Policy Considerations for the Twenty-First Century; G.A.Kelson
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GREGORY A.KELSON is the founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Women and Children's Policy, an international policymaking think-tank. He is the author of three law review articles and has lectured extensively on international women and children's human rights. His current work involves monitoring government compliance to the Beijing Platform for Action, the rights of children in adoption cases, reparations for Asian comfort women, and gender-based persecution and political asylum.

DEBRA L. DeLAET is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Drake University. She received her PhD in Government and International Studies from the University of Notre Dame. Her research interests are in the areas of international migration, human rights, and international law and organizations. She is currently revising her manuscript, Domestic Politics, Liberal Ideas, and U.S. Immigration Policy, and is completing research on the most recent amendments to U.S. immigration policy.