Engaging in Trans-local Management of Households: Aspects of Livelihood and Gender Transformations among Sri Lankan Women Migrant Workers

Abstract

With the women migrants assuming the role of the family income earner, a new dimension to migration and household management has been added. Physical and spatial separation from their families results in the management and use of resources being taken away from the household. Two centres of power is the consequence where the earner is the woman migrant and the manager a delegated person in the family. To support these two power position, a supportive social network is also necessary.