The International migration of women

Recent years have seen the rapid growth of international migration and remittances as well as an increase in research and policy discussions on this topic.This dialogue has highlighted the development impact of migration and drawn attention to such economic issues as job creation in sending countries, improvements to temporary work arrangements, and increased facilitation of the flow of remittances.Several important policy initiatives in recent years have deepened this dialogue.In 2004 the European Union launched the AENEAS program, which provides financial and technical assistance to non-European countries in the area of migration and asylum.In 2005 the United Nations Global Commission on International Migration was established to facilitate policy dialogue on migration.In 2006 the first High Level Dialogue on International Migration was held at the United Nations headquarters.This resulted in the creation of the Global Forum on Migration and Development, an informal, voluntary, state-led forum for the discussion of migration and development issues.The forum first met in Brussels in 2007.Regional development banks have also begun to tackle the issue, as have governments of some source and destination countries and a number of research institutes and individual scholars.The World Bank has also contributed to the policy dialogue on international migration with several research volumes, including International Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain; Global Economic Prospects 2006: Economic Implications of Remittances and Migration; and the recently released International Migration, Economic Development, and Policy.However, recent research-with a few notable exceptions-has not paid sufficient attention to gender differences in migration patterns, motivations, and impacts.