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Women's Migration Timeline

Mid-8th century BC

1777

1619-1622

1667-69

ENGLAND: "Tobacco brides"

FRANCE: Governors send French white women to populate the colonies

ICELAND: Royal decree on merchants' residency brings influx of female relatives

ITALY: Abduction of the Sabine women

1778-1783

1712-21

1663-73

1545-18th century

SPAIN: Peasant women and girls from northern Spain to Río de la Plata through royalist project

FRANCE: "Casquette girls", "Pelican girls", and correction girls

FRANCE: The King's daughters

PORTUGAL: The Órfãs do Rei (The King’s Orphans or The Queen’s Orphans)

Women's Migration Timeline

1869

1854-84

1817-1917

1840s-1850s

SLOVENIA: Alexandrinian women

POLAND: Polish women at the University of Geneva

UK: Creation of British women's emigration societies

IRELAND: Earl Grey Scheme

1845-52

1860s

1871

1825-1925

NORWAY: Norwegian women's migration to North America

ITALY: Italian women's migration to the USA

IRELAND: Great Irish famine women migrants outnumber men

UK: "Bride ship"

Women's Migration Timeline

1886

1892- 1929

1871-1980

1882-96

ICELAND: The Allan Line's agency in Iceland and first wave of women's migration from Iceland

ITALY: Sociedade Promotora from Brazil and Italian women migrants in fazendas

SPAIN:Women from Spain to Argentina

DENMARK: Polish migration to Denmark

1903

1885

1890

1880

UK: Swanley Horticultural College (UK)

POLAND: Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth

UK: Leaton Colonial Home (UK)

SWEDEN: Swedish migrant women workers' migration to the US

Women's Migration Timeline

1929-39

1920s-30s

1915-16

1909

BELGIUM: The "Ligue des Familles nombreuses"

ARMENIA: Ottoman authorities arrested and deported hundreds of Armenian intellectuals and leaders

GREECE: Migration of brides for Greek settlers in the US and Australia

FINLAND: Crofter law, expulsions and women's migration

1944-50

1911

1920s

1923

ESTONIA: Remigration of Estonians to Soviet Russia: half women

HUNGARY: Expulsion of ethnic Germans: 51% women

ISRAEL: Founding of "The maidens' farm"

TURKEY: Consequences of the Treaty of Lausanne on women's migration

Women's Migration Timeline

1945-51

1948-50

1951-63

1946

GREECE: Canadian government scheme to recruit domestic workers

LATVIA, LITHUANIA AND ESTONIA: Labour scheme called “Balt Cygnet”

ROMANIA AND GERMANY: Deportation order for women

CZECH REPUBLIC: Greek civil war

1956

1946-1970

1945-1976

1949

GREECE: Greek-Australian program to even the gender imbalance

MALTA: Malta-Australia Migration Agreement

LATVIA: women deportees

ITALY: Marriage by proxy

Women's Migration Timeline

1956

1960s

1965

1970-2001

NETHERLANDS: Deportation of wives of Italian migrant workers

HUNGARY: Consequences of the Warsaw Pact in 1956

GREECE: Arrival of Filipino women domestic workers

SPAIN: Female migration under Franco's dictatorship

1964-65

1973

1957

1965-1968

SERBIA: Liberalization of the passport regime

CROATIA: Agreements on employment between the SFRY and Western countries

GREECE: The "Begona'" transported 900 single Greek women to Australia

TURKEY: Turkish women's migration to Germany

Women's Migration Timeline

1989

1981

1980

1974

CYPRUS : Women Walk Home movement

BULGARIA: Greek women political refugees

FRANCE: Maison des Femmes

HUNGARY: Women left Hungary to become caregivers

1975

1980-today

1983

1989-2006

CROATIA: Women's migration from Croatia to Italy

NETHERLANDS: Regulation facilitating independent residence status for wives

SWITZERLAND: Manifesto of Foreign Women

SLOVAKIA: Slovak nannies' circular migration in Austria

Women's Migration Timeline

2002

1997

1990s

2006

ITALY: Bossi-Fini Law and caregivers' migration to Italy

RUSSIA: Women sold as commodities on the sex market

ALBANIA: Recruitment and transport centre of women from Eastern Europe

UK: Women for Refugee Women in London

1992

2010-20

2006

1999

ISRAEL: Law prohibiting human trafficking impacting women migrants' exploitation

GERMANY: Syrian Civil War and women refugees

MONTENEGRO: Regulation on the care of displaced people

KOSOVO: Yogoslavian women become refugees

Women's Migration Timeline

2017

2015

2011

2021

ISRAEL: Foundation of Kutchinate

MOLDOVA: Movement of Migrant Women

LUXEMBOURG: The Lëtzebuerg Diversity Charter

BOSNIA: No Nation Fashion Project

2014-21

2015-2017

2022

2018

UK: Brides for ISIS fighters

GEORGIA: Women's migration due to economic crisis

SPAIN: Opening of Ödos

UKRAINE: Martial Law and influx of women migrants