Jansen Natalie, Agadjanian Victor
Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Int Migr Rev. 2025 Jan 15. doi: 10.1177/01979183231225942.
In this study, we investigate the association between men's labor migration and changes in their non-migrating wives' self-rated health (SRH) over time using longitudinal data from rural Mozambique. In addition to comparing wives of non-migrants and wives of migrants, we account for variation in the economic impact of migration and in migrants' phone communication with their spouses. We find that migrants' wives are significantly less likely to report low SRH, compared to non-migrants' wives, net of other factors. However, this net advantage is concentrated among migrants' wives who receive frequent remittances and who report that their households' conditions have improved thanks to husband's migration. We also find that women who engage in frequent phone communication with their migrant husbands have decreased likelihoods of low SRH, compared to migrants' wives who do not communicate with their husbands during their migration and to women married to non-migrants, regardless of other characteristics. We interpret these findings within the context of multifaceted gendered implications of men's migration for left-behind women's health and wellbeing.
在本研究中，我们利用莫桑比克农村地区的纵向数据，调查男性劳动力迁移与他们未迁移的妻子的自评健康状况（SRH）随时间变化之间的关联。除了比较非移民的妻子和移民的妻子之外，我们还考虑了迁移的经济影响以及移民与配偶的电话沟通方面的差异。我们发现，在扣除其他因素后，与非移民的妻子相比，移民的妻子报告低自评健康状况的可能性显著更低。然而，这种净优势集中在那些经常收到汇款且报告称由于丈夫迁移其家庭状况得到改善的移民妻子中。我们还发现，与在丈夫迁移期间不与丈夫沟通的移民妻子以及与非移民结婚的女性相比，无论其他特征如何，与移民丈夫频繁进行电话沟通的女性自评健康状况低的可能性降低。我们在男性迁移对留守妇女健康和福祉的多方面性别影响的背景下解读这些发现。
