Associate Professor Roy Huijsmans has contributed a chapter to a new publication on Supporting Brighter Futures: Young women and girls and labour migration in South-East Asia and the Pacific
In his chapter, Young Women and Girls’s Migration and Education: Understanding the multiple relations, Roy analyses the various ways in which migration and education interact in the lives of girls and young women across Southeast Asia.
It differentiates between the impact of parental migration on their daughters' education and how girls’ and young women’s own involvement in labour migration affects their education.
Depending on a range of factors, the chapter concludes that girls’ and young women’s migration may contribute to lengthening their participation in formal schooling, but may also lead to an early termination of it. The chapter also makes the case for conceptualizing education more holistically. This allows recognizing that for some girls and young women migration itself may be educational and a realistic pathway towards acquiring new sets of skills.
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