Impact of male emigration on the status of left-behind women: A case study of a Pakistani village

"This study focuses on several migration-related factors which facilitate or constrain changes in decision-making power, activity patterns, and attitudes of women whose husbands emigrated to the Middle East. The three important factors for the study of the ""left-behind"" women were: husband's absence and its duration; the extent of migrant's contact with his home; and the type of family system in which the wife resides. The study's hypotheses were: (a) migrant status and duration of husband's stay abroad have a positive relationship with women's decision-making power; (b) the level of contact between husbands and left-behind wives, as well as the extended family system, have negative relationships with women's decision-making power; (c) duration of husbands' absence from households has a positive effect on women's attitudes; and (d) left-behind women perform more non-traditional and less strenuous activities than women in non-migrant households."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Malik, Khalida Shahnaz

Contributors dc:contributor

• Sofranko, Andrew J.

• Women's Studies
• Sociology, Individual and Family Studies
• Sociology, Social Structure and Development

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1993 Malik, Khalida Shahnaz

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9411702
(UMI)AAI9411702

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/22228