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Sonia: While understanding how different countries’ migration policies affect women and men differently would require a thorough research, one can safely conclude that some countries’ national migration policies are affecting women and men differently.

There is no doubt in my mind that some countries migration policies are gender bias. Those policies can be restrictive, discriminatory, lenient, belief oriented, or household, societal and national responsibility driven. Migration policies are more skewed in countries and societies where the roles of men and women are perceived differently. For example, there is a very high propensity to limit women mobility in a society where raising kids is seen as women’s principle responsibility…. Similarly there are nations that had in the past limited male mobility when their country is in a war. So you can imagine how migration policy will look like in countries and societies where male and women roles are perceived differently.

While I will leave for a research to provide conclusive answer, I would like to encourage you continue your undertaking those field trips in which you will have the opportunity to learn from the real people who were and are still victim of discriminatory migration policies.