About the Book: Migration, Trafficking and Gender Construction: Women in
Transition
Bringing together essays on India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Europe, Migration,
Trafficking and Gender Construction: Women in Transition offers valuable
insights on womens migration and demonstrates how tremendous political
upheavals—the partition of India, the creation of Burma or the breakup of the
Soviet Union and Yugoslavia—bring about new geography, demography and economies
that are conducive to peoples displacement. Immigrants face racial-ethnic
stratification, location segregation in ghettoes or camps and difficulties to
access economic opportunities, leading usually to downward assimilation.
Emphasizing intersectionality between gender and migration, the book highlights
womens experiences holistically and also shows how migration is closely