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Interview: the dangerous invisibility of women migrants

Women migrate all over the world to work or to escape violence, yet in comparison to male migrants they are barely visible in policy and media discussions. This makes them vulnerable. Español

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Women sort pistachios by hand at a privately-owned factory in Herat, Afghanistan. United Nations Photo/Flickr. (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Jenna Holliday: My name is Jenna Holliday, and I am an independent gender and migration specialist and researcher.

Cameron Thibos (oD): One of the assumptions you hear a lot in the press is that most of the people on the move today are unmarried men. Can we start with you giving us a corrective on the realities of women’s migration around the world today?