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 eg women remit more women are agents of development that have very little to do with womens realities aspirations and struggles in the global south while decontextualizing and depersonalizing their experiencessuch headlines also silence the global structural inequalities that are foregrounded by human rightsfocused literature in the name of development