Despite this being the era of migration, no systematic theory of international migration has emerged, nor is there an academic or political agreement on ways in which migration is a ‘gendered’ process. Both theoretically and as inputs in the policy-making process, gender-blind approaches have actually rendered the gender dimension of migration more or less invisible. Through an in-depth examination of the place of gender in the key theories of migration and relevant sources of data, the paper seeks to take stock of how these theories treat this dimension and investigate the cross-sectional challenges in uncovering gender in international migration data. It, therefore, provides a critical review of both theory and data by shedding much-needed light on their neglect of the gender aspects. Our findings based on a conceptual review of the literature and a case study based on Eurostat data on migration drivers demonstrate that migration theories and statistics typically equate gender with sex, which limits our ability to develop a comprehensive understanding of how complex gender dimensions shape the migration process. Moreover, given the extent to which existing data and theories overlook the intersectionality between the drivers of migration and diversity within migrant groups, this gap in knowledge presents an obstacle to gender-responsive migration governance. In light of this, the paper discusses priorities for ‘gendering’ international migration research. We argue that in addition to improving accuracy and coverage of sex-disaggregated statistics on international migration, both regular and irregular, it is crucial to develop quantitative as well as qualitative indicators to monitor the gender dimension in this area.

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对无性别移民理论和数据来源的批评

尽管现在是移民时代，但还没有出现系统的国际移民理论，对于移民是“性别”过程的方式也没有学术或政治上的共识。无论是从理论上还是作为政策制定过程中的投入，无视性别的方法实际上都或多或少地掩盖了移民的性别层面。通过深入研究性别在移民关键理论和相关数据来源中的地位，本文试图盘点这些理论如何处理这一维度，并调查在国际移民数据中揭示性别的跨部门挑战。因此，它通过对理论和数据对性别方面的忽视提供了急需的启示，对理论和数据进行了批判性审查。我们的研究结果基于对文献的概念性回顾和基于欧盟统计局关于移民驱动因素的数据的案例研究，表明移民理论和统计数据通常将性别与性别等同起来，这限制了我们全面了解复杂的性别维度如何影响移民的能力过程。此外，鉴于现有数据和理论在多大程度上忽视了移民驱动因素与移民群体内部多样性之间的交叉性，这种知识差距对促进性别平等的移民治理构成了障碍。有鉴于此，本文讨论了“性别化”国际移民研究的优先事项。我们认为，除了提高按性别分列的国际移民统计数据的准确性和覆盖面（无论是正规移民还是非正规移民）之外，