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ArticleDemography2024

Migration, Gender, and Families: The Effects of Spousal Migration on Women's Empowerment.

Heidi West, Angubeen Khan, Abdur Razzaque, Randall Kuhn

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Article in Demography, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Heidi WestDepartment of Health Science, California State University, Long Beach, CA, USA; Department of Health Policy and Management, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9806-834X
Angubeen KhanInstitute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Department of Community Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3848-8027
Abdur RazzaqueHealth System and Population Studies Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Randall KuhnDepartment of Community Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5664-6933

Funding

Scientific and Technical CoreP2CHD041022 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI Martha Jane Bailey · 2016 to 2026
$6.9M
CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR POPULATION TRAINING PROGRAMT32HD007545 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI HIRAM BELTRAN-SANCHEZ, Megan M Sweeney · 2001 to 2026
$4.1M
Long-term Effects of Health and Development Interventions in Rural BangladeshR01AG033713 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO · PI MENKEN, JANE A · 2010 to 2014
$3.1M
AHRQ HHS T32 HS000046NIA NIH HHS R01 AG033713NICHD NIH HHS P2C HD041022NICHD NIH HHS T32 HD007545
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Labor migration has a profound effect on families, but evidence documenting the impact of migration on women left behind is still lacking. Utilizing the Matlab Health and Socioeconomic Surveys, we examined the roles of migration and families in four domains of empowerment for women in Bangladesh. We found that women with international migrant spouses saw significant improvements in economic empowerment, mobility, and decision-making relative to women with coresident spouses (p < .0001). However, women who lived in multigenerational households with their parents or in-laws experienced significant reductions in empowerment across these three domains. Both having a migrant spouse and living in a multigenerational household had negative effects on beliefs about gender equivalence and reduced joint decision-making for women. Results, which were robust to migration selection controls (including propensity approaches), indicate that the benefits of migration for women left behind might be diluted by family structures that perpetuate unequal gender dynamics.

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EmpowermentSpousesAdultBangladeshDecision MakingFamily CharacteristicsFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPower, PsychologicalSocioeconomic FactorsTransients and MigrantsYoung AdultBangladeshEmpowermentGenderLeft behindMigration

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PMID38775463
PMCPMC11837763

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