Migration and Culture: The Impact of Internal and International Migration on Women- Men Relationship

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyse how internal migration and international out-migration has affected in modeling the
relations between women and men in a cultural and sub-cultural plane, based on quantitative and qualitative data through ¿eldwork.
Developments in Albania and Korça region after 1990 are characterized by profound changes in cultural field due to internal migration
from rural to urban and suburban areas, as well as due to emigration phenomena. Migratory processes in Korça region have affected
the dynamics of relations between subcultures, effects that reflect changes in women- men relationships, changes in woman’s status,
changes in expectations towards one another, increase of the number of divorces (open and hidden), mixed marriages, etc. This paper
draws on a research in three sections of Korça city, section 1, 2, and 3, which reflect a cultural environment where are intertwined trends
of the cultural change, caused by migration from rural areas within the city and emigration process to neighboring Greece.This paper
represents an attempt which uses conceptual structures of contemporary sociology and anthropology to throw light on several profiles of
Albanian culture in general, and local culture in specific.