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
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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