Gender Dimensions of Albanian Migration

Abstract

Rapid urbanisation has resulted in significant economic, social, and cultural changes in developing countries, leading to certain implications for gender equality and women's empowerment. The study aims to better understand how rural-to-urban migration affects women's autonomy and decision-making.  The study looks at how migration might challenge traditional ideas about gender and patriarchal beliefs, based on a survey of 400 rural to urban migrants and 20 in-depth interviews with people who moved from villages to the city. The study discovered that rural-to-urban migration affected and altered gendered decision-making processes as well as gender relations within households to some level. As a result of their migratory experience, women obtain increased autonomy and decision-making power inside their homes. Those who migrate may find new economic and social possibilities.