Abstract:
Women’s sole internal migration has been mostly ignored in migration studies, and the
concentration on migrant women has been almost exclusively on low-income women
within the household framework. This study focuses on middleclass women’s
contemporary rural-urban migration in Lebanon. It probes into the determinants and
outcomes of women’s sole internal migration within the empowerment framework. The
study delves into the interplay of the personal, social, and structural factors that
determine the women’s rural-urban migration as well as its outcomes. It draws together
the lived experiences of migrant women to explore the determinants of women’s
internal migration as well as the impact of migration on their expanded empowerment.
