Session 9:
Gender and Migration
Chair: Soumya Alva, Westat, Inc.
Discussant: Jennifer Holdaway, Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
Reshaping the Post-Soviet Periphery: The Impact of Men’s Labor Migration on Women’s Lives and Aspirations in Rural Armenia Victor Agadjanian, Arizona State University ; Arusyak Sevoyan, Arizona State University ; Cecilia Menjivar, Arizona State University
Remittances and Changing Gender Power Relations in Recipient Households Maria Aysa, Florida International University
Migrant Social Capital: Effects of Thailand’s 1997 Economic Crisis and Post-Crisis Recovery Sara Curran, University of Washington ; Karen Brooks, University of Washington ; Anita Rocha, University of Washington
Who Arrives First? The Timing of Arrival among Immigrants in the Same Household Hiromi Ishizawa, University of Minnesota ; Gillian Stevens, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Other sessions on Migration and Urbanization