High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Feminization of migration is a recent trend in which gendered patterns are changing and a higher rate of women are migrating for labor or marriage. The percentage of female migrants world-wide has risen from 46.7 percent in 1960 to 49.6 percent as of 2005, according to United Nations statistics. Research on the gender patterns of migration have increased substantially over the past several decades. Some of the issues this research attends to are remittances and their economic impacts, family cohesion, racialization of migrants, human trafficking, gendered division of labor, and economic as well as educational opportunities.