Migration as Emancipation? The Impact of Internal and International Migration on the Position of Women Left Behind in Rural MoroccoFootnote

Most of the data collection for this paper was part of the 1998–2001 IMAROM research project, which was funded by the INCO-DC programme of the European Commission (DG XII, IC18-CT97-0134). Funding for data collection in 2003 and 2005 was provided by a postdoctoral research grant (2003–06, W 53-331) of the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research (WOTRO) of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). The authors wish to express their gratitude to these funding bodies for enabling this study.

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