EWS. Gendered Geographic Mobilities and Quantitative Data: A Pilot Study in Faroe Island, Iceland and North Norway

This project is a pilot study which aim is to prepare for a larger comparative study on gendered geographic mobility in coastal communities in the Faroe Island, Iceland and North Norway - areas that can be said to belong to the Northern Regions or the Eas tern part of the North Atlantic Rim. These are areas marked both with similarities and differences. The pilot study will be used to clarify the need of appropriate data enabling us to compare conditions, various aspects and forms of gendered mobilities. Examples may be financial, political, demographic and geographical conditions as well as various forms of gendered mobilities such as long and short term commuting, immigration and outmigration by women and men born in the respective countries as well as women and men from abroad. These forms of mobilities often do exist side by side in small as well as more populated coastal communities. Further the pilot study will highlight the existence of useful statistical data and registers, discuss quality of the data and the need for new data, the purpose being to explore what enables us to make for fruitful comparative Nordic gender and mobility study. The pilot study will result in a paper focusing on relevant quality data to be used in an application to Nordi c research institutions as well as to research councils in the respective countries.