Thursday, March 29 / 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM   •   Duffy/Columbia

Session 9:
Gender and Migration

Chair: Soumya Alva, Westat, Inc.
Discussant: Jennifer Holdaway, Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

  1. Reshaping the Post-Soviet Periphery: The Impact of Men’s Labor Migration on Women’s Lives and Aspirations in Rural ArmeniaVictor Agadjanian, Arizona State University ; Arusyak Sevoyan, Arizona State University ; Cecilia Menjivar, Arizona State University

  2. Remittances and Changing Gender Power Relations in Recipient HouseholdsMaria Aysa, Florida International University

  3. Migrant Social Capital: Effects of Thailand’s 1997 Economic Crisis and Post-Crisis RecoverySara Curran, University of Washington ; Karen Brooks, University of Washington ; Anita Rocha, University of Washington

  4. Who Arrives First? The Timing of Arrival among Immigrants in the Same HouseholdHiromi Ishizawa, University of Minnesota ; Gillian Stevens, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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