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Gender has become a category of concern for many historians of migration in scholarship of the 2000s. This article notes a variety of factors which made it possible and likely for historians to turn to questions of gender. The article surveys historiography on migration and gender as it developed in the late twentieth century and explores some current directions in this scholarship, on a variety of geographic scales: global, national, and local. It emphasizes the need for longitudinal analysis in any study of gender and migration, and notes some approaches to the concept of time used by historians.

This article discusses a number of the ways in which marriage & migration interacted in European sending areas for migration in the 19th & early 20th centuries. It also speculates as to some of the ramifications of those changes in marriage & migration patterns. In particular, it uses sources from the Netherlands in the late 19th & early 20th century to illustrate a few patterns, some quantitative ones already well known to scholars of demography & some qualitative ones which have received less attention, & poses some hypotheses that other researchers can pursue for other emigration regions & periods. Unlike international migrants from many sending regions, where single men dominated the migration of this period, those from the Netherlands at the turn of the century tended more often to move in family units. In discussing these issues, this article demonstrates the degree to which marriage in the sending country was affected by migration, offering a variety of insights into the way in which these changes were of a gendered nature. Adapted from the source document.

This collection addresses the recent rebirth of interest in immigrant letters. As these letters are increasingly seen as key, rather than incidental, documents in the interpretations of gender, age, social class, and ethnicity/nationality, the scholars gathered here demonstrate a diversity of new approaches to their interpretation.