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The issue of gender and migration started being a subject of discussion in the Greek literature around 2003. Before that, very few texts were published on the issue, many of them concerning trafficking and prostitution. Until now, though, the topic of gender remains within the limits of a “closed” discussion and is dealt with as a “special” issue; most of the literature on migration does not include gender aspects, apart from the literature that has gender as its main focus. Although in many texts we find “men” and “women” as sex categories, there is no further analysis of gender as a social relation that affects all aspects of migrants’ lives. Gender -not only in the Greek literature – is not perceived as a constitutive element/factor of migration, like class or race, that are included more often in studies on migration.
