Publication

This paper compares migration regimes in the US and Canada and examines if the work environments in the two countries are gendered. The authors argue that changes to migration policy that increasingly favor admissions of highly educated migrants penalize women who come from countries in which resources are highly concentrated in male hands. Further, the paper finds that the deregulated labor markets of the North American countries have reinforced gendered occupational hierarchies in which immigrant women often hold disadvantaged places.