Transition in Gender Ideology and Women Migrant's Empowerment in Germany and Sweden: Inclusion of 'Gender' and 'Integration' Needs in Relevant Policies/Legislation.

WOMEN immigrants; GENDER identity; IMMIGRANTS; POWER (Social sciences); SATISFACTION

This study reviews the inclusion of 'gender' and 'integration' in the policies and legislation designed to facilitate the integration of women migrants and their impacts on migrant's gender ideology in two European legislative regimes: Germany and Sweden. The study is conducted in four steps; (1) a thematic analysis of twenty conventions and recommendations of the UN, ILO, and EU, (2) latent analysis of ten policies/pieces of legislation, (3) survey with women migrants, and (4) in-depth interviews with experts. This study finds that existing legal frameworks do not fully comply with the international legal frame to meet women migrant's 'gender' and 'integration' needs, although the situation seems relatively better in Germany than in Sweden. It is found that migration has brought positive changes in gender ideology for migrants in many arenas, except one. Migrant's satisfaction with legal measures also contributes to this transition. The study summarizes three groups of barriers to the transformation of gender ideology for both countries. These are; agency-specific, institution-specific, and state-specific. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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