Introduction

Abstract

International and internal migration have characterised Albania since 1990, when the communist regime established in the aftermath of the Second World War was on its last legs. While the number of studies on Albanian migration, both national and transnational, has grown, only a few adopt the perspective of gender. Employing a gender perspective on migration is not only about using sex-disaggregated statistics but also explaining the processes and discourses in migration involving women and men, their relations to each other (Erel et al., 2003) and among women themselves (Parreñas, 2009)