Timeline Milestones COST

ENGLAND: "Tobacco brides"

1667-69

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

1545-18th century

ITALY: Abduction of the Sabine women

Mid-8th century BC

Women's Migration Timeline

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

1777

FRANCE: The King's daughters

1663-73

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

1778-1783

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

1712-21

FRANCE: Governors send French white women to populate the colonies

1619-1622

NORWAY: Norwegian women's migration to North America

1825-1925

1871

ITALY: Italian women's migration to the USA

1869

SLOVENIA: Alexandrinian women

UK: "Bride ship"

1860s

UK: Creation of British women's emigration societies

1854-84

POLAND: Polish women at the University of Geneva

1817-1917

Women's Migration Timeline

IRELAND: Earl Grey Scheme

1840s-1850s

IRELAND: Great Irish famine women migrants outnumber men

1845-52

1886

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

SPAIN:Women from Spain to Argentina

1871-1980

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

1892- 1929

DENMARK: Polish migration to Denmark

1903

UK: Swanley Horticultural College (UK)

UK: Leaton Colonial Home (UK)

1890

POLAND: Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth

1885

Women's Migration Timeline

SWEDEN: Swedish migrant women workers' migration to the US

1880

1882-96

HUNGARY: Expulsion of ethnic Germans: 51% women

1944-50

BELGIUM: The "Ligue des Familles nombreuses"

1929-39

1920s-30s

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

1920s

ESTONIA: Remigration of Estonians to Soviet Russia: half women

ISRAEL: Founding of "The maidens' farm"

1911

1909

FINLAND: Crofter law, expulsions and women's migration

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

Women's Migration Timeline

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

1923

1915-16

GREECE: Canadian government scheme to recruit domestic workers

GREECE: Greek-Australian program to even the gender imbalance

1946-1970

MALTA: Malta-Australia Migration Agreement

CZECH REPUBLIC: Greek civil war

1951-63

ROMANIA AND GERMANY: Deportation order for women

1945-51

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

1956

1946

1949

1948-50

Women's Migration Timeline

LATVIA: women deportees

ITALY: Marriage by proxy

1945-1976

1956

HUNGARY: Consequences of the Warsaw Pact in 1956

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

1957

SERBIA: Liberalization of the passport regime

1964-65

CROATIA: Agreements on employment between the SFRY and Western countries

NETHERLANDS: Deportation of wives of Italian migrant workers

SPAIN: Female migration under Franco's dictatorship

1960s

TURKEY: Turkish women's migration to Germany

1973

1965

GREECE: Arrival of Filipino women domestic workers

1970-2001

Women's Migration Timeline

1965-1968

HUNGARY: Women left Hungary to become caregivers

1989

1989-2006

SLOVAKIA: Slovak nannies' circular migration in Austria

1983

NETHERLANDS: Regulation facilitating independent residence status for wives

FRANCE: Maison des Femmes

1981

CROATIA: Women's migration from Croatia to Italy

1980-today

BULGARIA: Greek women political refugees

1974

1975

1980

CYPRUS : Women Walk Home movement

Women's Migration Timeline

SWITZERLAND: Manifesto of Foreign Women

GERMANY: Syrian Civil War and women refugees

2010-20

UK: Women for Refugee Women in London

2006

2006

ISRAEL: Law prohibiting human trafficking impacting women migrants' exploitation

2002

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

1999

KOSOVO: Yogoslavian women become refugees

1997

RUSSIA: Women sold as commodities on the sex market

ALBANIA: Recruitment and transport centre of women from Eastern Europe

1990s

1992

MONTENEGRO: Regulation on the care of displaced people

Women's Migration Timeline

2021

BOSNIA: No Nation Fashion Project

UKRAINE: Martial Law and influx of women migrants

2022

SPAIN: Opening of Ödos

2018

2017

MOLDOVA: Movement of Migrant Women

2014-21

GEORGIA: Women's migration due to economic crisis

2011

ISRAEL: Foundation of Kutchinate

2015

UK: Brides for ISIS fighters

Women's Migration Timeline

2015-2017

LUXEMBOURG: The Lëtzebuerg Diversity Charter