Beautiful Victims and Sacrificing Heroines: Exploring the Role of Gender Knowledge in Migration Policies.

WOMEN immigrants; ECONOMIC impact of emigration & immigration; EMIGRATION & immigration; WOMEN'S wages; WOMEN -- Personal finance; GENDER stereotypes; GENDER role

The article focuses on women immigrants. It explains that women immigrants have been proven to send more money home to their countries of origin, for longer amounts of time, and for long-term investments such as health care. The trafficking of women is examined and the stereotypes of women referred to as the "beautiful victim" and the "sacrificing heroine" are explored. Gender studies and the bias of gender knowledge are addressed and the need to recognize women migrants as agents of change is noted.