Around the world, more and more women are migrating for work and better lives. Women and girls are estimated to compose approximately half of the world’s 281 million international migrants. Along with the benefits of migration there are also dangerous risks, including exploitation in domestic jobs, and vulnerability to violence. This course is an exploration of migration as a deeply gendered process. We will examine the sociopolitical and historical contexts related to the construction of current migration and asylum regimes, through a critical lens, including the structures of power and inequality within which they are located. The lens of gender and intersectionality invites us to re-examine fundamental questions that include: Who is migrating, why and how? Who is mobile and who is immobile? Who works and where? Women, LGBTQ and gender diverse populations encounter significantly particular risks, experiences, histories, and motivations in migration. Women and gender diverse populations more often than men experience higher risks of gender-based violence, trafficking, and sexual exploitation, traversing along irregular migration routes. Many end up in healthcare industries, care giving and domestic work, and unjust labor practices, relations of domination, including classism, misogyny and racism are navigated while seeking political asylum and immigration status. Systemic and structural inequities, colonial violence, impact female identified migration, which require gender-informed policies to protect women's human rights and gender diverse people through, gender responsive migration governance as part of the process and cycle of migration. the global feminization of migration. interdisciplinary field of migration studies to comprehend migrations from a gendered perspective. Our course readings/materials include a wide range of readings from women/gender studies, sociology, psychology, geography, political science, and anthropology, a reflection of the transdisciplinary nature of migration studies.