This is an important aspect of it, necessary for advocating for better rights and working conditions. On the other hand, scholarly research on migration and development has also focused on the agency of migrants, mostly through the glorification of the role of remittances for development. The policy field is populated by simplistic storylines (e.g., 'women remit more’, ‘women are agents of development’) that have very little to do with women's realities, aspirations and struggles in the Global South. While de-contextualizing and de-personalizing their experi-ences,such headlines also silence the global structural inequalities that are foregrounded by human rights-focused literature in the name of‘development’.