Women, gender and remittances: an introduction / Ton van Naerssen, Lothar Smith, Tine Davids and Marianne H. Marchand -- A gender perspective on migration, remittances and development: the UN-INSTRAW experience / Elisabeth Robert -- Exploring gender and remittances / Ton van Naerssen -- Contesting gender roles: 'left-behind' migrant spouses in Kumasi, Ghana / Ingmar Deenen, Lieke van der Zee and Lothar Smith -- Transnational households and the dynamics of changing gender relations in Sucre, Bolivia / Roos Helmich -- Gender dimensions of the 'national script' on migration and remittances in the Philippines / Phillip Gresham, Marieke Smit and Lothar Smith -- Gender and remittances in the constitution of a transnational religious space: the Bangladesh-Malaysia connection / Petra Dannecker -- 'All in the family': remittances, gender and public policies in the Philippines / Maruja M.B. Asis -- Migrants' and women's rights are human rights: migrant remittances and policies in Bangladesh / Agnes Khoo -- Valuing gender in collective development efforts / Danielle de Winter -- Migrants as 'experts' or 'agents' of development? A postcolonial feminist critique / Marianne H. Marchand -- 'Moneymaker and mother from afar': the power of gender myths / Rahel Kunz -- Framing gender in remittances / Tine Davids and Francien van Driel -- Epilogue: reflecting on the women-gender-remittances-development nexus / Ton van Naerssen, Lothar Smith, Tine Davids and Marianne H. Marchand.