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“Migration is a highly complex phenomenon, with significant economic, socio-political, cultural, and religious repercussions for the migrants, their native countries, and the host societies” (Phan, 2003, p. 3). The present book is an effort at understanding this phenomenon of migration from the perspective of the psychology of women and girls.
The “age of mobility” is here to stay. Never before in human history have so many people been on the move. Today around 214 million people, or approximately 3 percent of the world’s population, live outside their country of birth. Women and girls account for half of international migrants, and 16 percent are under the age of 20. South-south migration is now as frequent as south-north migration has been in the past, and while 97 percent of the world’s population does not move, migration is a global phenomenon that touches millions of lives, including many of those of haven’t themselves migrated. (Stiglitz, Cortina & Ochoa-Reza, 2013, p. xv)
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Espín, O.M., Dottolo, A.L. (2015). Introduction. In: Espín, O.M., Dottolo, A.L. (eds) Gendered Journeys: Women, Migration and Feminist Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137521477_1
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