190 million people - 3 percent of the world's population - presently live outside their country of birth and half are women. This volume is the first to provide gender analysis on international migration and explore the extent, determinants, and implications of women's migration. It also discusses policy options to benefit female migration.

MAURICE SCHIFF is a Lead Economist in the International Trade Unit, Development Research Group. He currently directs a Research Program on International Migration and Development has published various articles on the topic and has co-edited a book entitled International Migration, Remittances and the Brain Drain which was published in 2005. He co-directed a research project on Regional Integration which generated a large number of articles in refereed journals, a Symposium Issue of the WBER, the book Regional Integration and Development (published in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish), and the Policy Research Report Trade Blocs. He also co-directed an earlier research project entitled 'The Political Economy of Agricultural Pricing Policy', which generated a large number of articles, a five-volume series in English and a volume in Spanish. He has also published on game-theoretic analyses of commodity trade policy; social capital; the geography of trade; nutrition; and trade- and FDI-related technology diffusion. His work has included policy analysis and advice in Chile, the Dominican Republic, Mauritius, Morocco, Nicaragua, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, the West Bank and Gaza, and other countries in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, in the areas of trade policy, migration, and agriculture.

Introduction I: ANALYSIS AND DATA: WHERE DO WE STAND? Gender in Economic Research on International Migration and Its Impacts: A Critical Review; L.Pfeiffer, S.Richter, P.Fletcher & J.E.Taylor Trends in International Migration: Is There a Feminization of Migration Flows?; J.C.Guzmßn II. DETERMINANTS OF MIGRATION AND REMITTANCES Gender and the Determinants of International Migration from Rural Mexico Over Time; S.Richter & J.E.Taylor Gender-Specific Determinants of Remittances: Differences in Structure and Motivation; M.Orozco, B.L.Lowell & J.Schneider III. IMPACT OF MIGRATION AND REMITTANCES Gender and the Impacts of International Migration: Evidence from Rural; L.Pfeiffer & J.E.Taylor The Impact of Remittances and Gender on Household Expenditure Patterns: Evidence from Ghana; J.C.Guzmßn, A.R.Morrison & M.Sj÷blom IV. LABOR MARKET PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN MIGRANTS Immigrant Women's Participation and Performance in the U.S. Labor Market; ¿.¿zden & I.C.Neagu V. LOOKING AHEAD Future Directions For Research And Policy; A.R.Morrison & M.Schiff