In standard classification, migration to the Gulf is considered as a South-South type of movement. Critiques to approaches such as the New Economics of Labour Migration (NELM) have shown how unequal gendered power relations in both the migration process and the broader migrant networks have been overlooked.8Thelackofgenderanalysisinthetransna-tional migration literature has also been highlighted,9 even though attention to gender dynamics in transnationalism has progressively increased,’® pointing at the complex interplay of gender, class and normative constraints in shaping women’s social personhood in a transnational field." Arango 2000, de Haas 2010, Lindley 2009.