This open access short reader offers a critical review of the debates on the transformation of
migration and gendered mobilities primarily in Europe though also engaging in wider
theoretical insights. Building on empirical case studies and grounded in an analytical
framework that incorporates both men and women masculinities sexualities and wider
intersectional insights this reader provides an accessible overview of conceptual developments
and methodological shifts and their implications for a gendered understanding of migration in
the past 30 years. It explores different and emerging approaches in major areas such as:
gendered labour markets across diverse sectors beyond domestic and care work to include skilled
sectors of social reproduction the significance of families in migration and transnational
families displacement asylum and refugees and the incorporation of gender and sexuality in
asylum determination academic critiques and gendered discourses concerning integration often
with the focus on Muslim women. The reader concludes with considerations of the potential
impact of three notable developments on gendered migrations and mobilities: Black Lives Matter
Brexit and COVID-19. As such it is a valuable resource for students academics policy makers
and practitioners.
