The Invisibilization of Women in the Studies of Migratory Processes

Abstract

This article aims to explain the exclusion of women as active subjects in the studies of their migratory movements, as well as to explain the specific factors forcing them to migrate. This is particularly important since the main theories on migratory movements lack the perspective of women as active subjects. Firstly, we will describe the reasons why women have not been integrated as active subjects in these studies; and, secondly, we will analyze the consequences of this omission. We will finish the present work with an example of how the introduction of the perspective of gender in the study of one of the current reasons of women’s migrations, specifically sexual violence in the armed conflicts improves the results of these studies and allows the public policies to know and to eradicate these reasons of migration.