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In
2005 It was estimated that one of every 35 people lived outside of the
country where he or she was born. Nearly 49.6% of the 190 million
immigrants were women.
 The money that migrant sent regularly to their countries of origin
seems little at individual level, regardles at global level it doubled
the official international aid in 2006. Along the recent years
migration and remittances flows have captured the attention from
different actors such as civil society, national and local governments,
banks and international organizations interested on remittances impact
on development.
Consequently, in 2003 INSTRAW started the research area of Gender,
Remittances and Development, acknowledging that inequality between men
and women needs to be considered as key issue when researching about
remittances and development. This kind of analysis has to consider:
- What is the contribution that female migrants add to development of their home countries and the fight against poverty?
- How to adjust the strategies on managing remittances towards reducing the inequality between men and female?
UN-INSTRAW has carried out diverse investigative projects in different
geographic zones of the World. In September 2006, it completed a case
study on the immigration of women from the Dominican municipality of
Vicente Noble to Spain. In the beginning of 2008, it finalized similar
studies for Colombia, Guatemala, the Philippines, and the sending of
remittances from South Africa to the six countries in Southern Africa
(Lesotho, Malawi, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, and Mozambique). Other
case studies were developed in Albania, Senegal , Morocco,
Dominican Republic, Philippines and Lesotho.
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