'the book makes an important contribution to the migration literature.' - Progress in Human Geography.'...this book provides a comprehensive overview of research on gender and migration within Britain and will be a useful resource for anyone with an interest in understanding the impact of gender on migration patterns and processes.' - Rebekah Widdowfield, Journal of Rural Studies 16 (2000)

• Tables and figures, 1 Introduction, 2 A longitudinal and regional analysis of gender-specific social and spatial mobilities in England and Wales 1981–91, 3 Gender variations in migration destination choice, 4 The employment consequences of migration, 5 Who gets on the escalator?, 6 The effect of family migration, migration history, and selfselection on married women’s labour market achievement where:, 7 Family migration and female participation in the labour market, 8 Migration, marriage and the life course, 9 Residential relocation of couples, 10 To follow the chicken or not?, 11 Gender variations in the characteristics of migrants living alone in England and Wales 1991, 12 On the journeys of the gentrifiers, 13 Gender issues in Irish rural out-migration, 14 Gender relations and identities in the colonization of ‘Middle England’, 15 Residential change, 16 Gender, migration and household change in elderly age groups, 17 Differential migrations through later life, 18 Inside and outside the Pale, Index

'the book makes an important contribution to the migration literature.' - Progress in Human Geography.'...this book provides a comprehensive overview of research on gender and migration within Britain and will be a useful resource for anyone with an interest in understanding the impact of gender on migration patterns and processes.' - Rebekah Widdowfield, Journal of Rural Studies 16 (2000)

• Tables and figures, 1 Introduction, 2 A longitudinal and regional analysis of gender-specific social and spatial mobilities in England and Wales 1981–91, 3 Gender variations in migration destination choice, 4 The employment consequences of migration, 5 Who gets on the escalator?, 6 The effect of family migration, migration history, and selfselection on married women’s labour market achievement where:, 7 Family migration and female participation in the labour market, 8 Migration, marriage and the life course, 9 Residential relocation of couples, 10 To follow the chicken or not?, 11 Gender variations in the characteristics of migrants living alone in England and Wales 1991, 12 On the journeys of the gentrifiers, 13 Gender issues in Irish rural out-migration, 14 Gender relations and identities in the colonization of ‘Middle England’, 15 Residential change, 16 Gender, migration and household change in elderly age groups, 17 Differential migrations through later life, 18 Inside and outside the Pale, Index

'the book makes an important contribution to the migration literature.' - Progress in Human Geography.'...this book provides a comprehensive overview of research on gender and migration within Britain and will be a useful resource for anyone with an interest in understanding the impact of gender on migration patterns and processes.' - Rebekah Widdowfield, Journal of Rural Studies 16 (2000)

• Tables and figures, 1 Introduction, 2 A longitudinal and regional analysis of gender-specific social and spatial mobilities in England and Wales 1981–91, 3 Gender variations in migration destination choice, 4 The employment consequences of migration, 5 Who gets on the escalator?, 6 The effect of family migration, migration history, and selfselection on married women’s labour market achievement where:, 7 Family migration and female participation in the labour market, 8 Migration, marriage and the life course, 9 Residential relocation of couples, 10 To follow the chicken or not?, 11 Gender variations in the characteristics of migrants living alone in England and Wales 1991, 12 On the journeys of the gentrifiers, 13 Gender issues in Irish rural out-migration, 14 Gender relations and identities in the colonization of ‘Middle England’, 15 Residential change, 16 Gender, migration and household change in elderly age groups, 17 Differential migrations through later life, 18 Inside and outside the Pale, Index