on the contrary tajikistan and uzbekistan have much stricter norms for womens mobility correspondingly migration from these two countries is mostly male with less than a fifth of women being in the migration flows as a consequence of this situation the salaries of female migrants are lower than those of males as a result women remit less in absolute amounts although the proportions of remittances from their earnings are the same however there is an important gendered consequence of the states vision of labour migration which is the lack of legal grounds for the labour migrants family members to stay with himher long term the socalled rule does not permit stays of more dian diree months unless die migrant possesses a patent work permit residence permit or other special documents