This article provides a gender analysis of how transnational families of Honduran migrants in Alexandria, Virginia USA and Nacaome, Valle, Honduras. It identifies gender dimensions, such as gender motives for migration, reproductive labour, empowerment of women, and intra-familial power negotiations.

This research explores the ways babies born to migrant and refugee women are being excluded from birth registration and calls for rights defenders to recognize and resist these practices, focusing on the Dominican Republic’s denial of birth certificates for people of Haitian descent.