In her lecture, Katharine Donato discusses her book with Donna Gabbaci, Gender and International Migration: From the Slavery Era to the Global Age (2015). Their work suggests that the roles of women and men in human migrations require a substantial re-thinking and shift away from simple notions related to the feminization of migration. Women and men who migrate live in gendered social worlds, embedded in the contexts of families and communities. As a result, women and men have always been actors who migrate, and at times and in different places, women (men) are more likely than men (women) to migrate.
