This article utilized de Haas and van Dooij's research on Moroccan migrants families as an example and discussed the possible consequences to gender stratification in the traditional society of migrants sending co...This article utilized de Haas and van Dooij's research on Moroccan migrants families as an example and discussed the possible consequences to gender stratification in the traditional society of migrants sending country. I argue that migration is actually like a pair of spectacles that makes the difference between the gender stratification in traditional societies and modern Western ones more obvious to females in traditional societies. Having male family members working in a western developed country does not necessarily empower the female ones left in the traditional societies but sometimes may contribute to more social insecurities and social gender stratification for the women even though the absence of the male family members could increase women's family leadership and the likelihood for them to receive education by using the remittances they regularly receive from overseas.展开更多
文摘This article utilized de Haas and van Dooij's research on Moroccan migrants families as an example and discussed the possible consequences to gender stratification in the traditional society of migrants sending country. I argue that migration is actually like a pair of spectacles that makes the difference between the gender stratification in traditional societies and modern Western ones more obvious to females in traditional societies. Having male family members working in a western developed country does not necessarily empower the female ones left in the traditional societies but sometimes may contribute to more social insecurities and social gender stratification for the women even though the absence of the male family members could increase women's family leadership and the likelihood for them to receive education by using the remittances they regularly receive from overseas.
