'Race,' gender, and internal migration within England and Wales

An analysis of race, marginal status and interregional migration among the Pakistani and West Indian populations in England and Wales, UK, confirms the gender-role theory of migration differentials. Migration is not advantageous to women within the white population while gender-role socialization proved crucial in the Pakistan sample. An analysis of every aspect of the migration of specific ethnic populations, in relation to their cultural backgrounds, is crucial to a study of culturally specific gender roles.