What is the Impact of Transnational Migration on Family Life? Women's Comparisons of Internal and International Migration in a Small Town in Ghana

Much scholarship on women’s transnational migration has explored whether women’s roles as wives and mothers have been challenged and transformed by transnational migration. The research presented here explores more closely the differences that transnational migration brings for women as daughters of elderly parents, by comparing their constraints and challenges to those of women who migrate within Ghana. In particular, I examine how migration fits into the life course of women in southeastern Ghana, both in the contemporary period and in the past. I conclude that female transnational migrants face similar challenges to female internal migrants, although their experiences are different in the specifics.Peer reviewe