Through research focused on the migratory flow from Axochiapan, Morelos, Mexico to Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., this article aims to explore the ways in which gender affects the meanings acquired by migration in a group of women who experienced it directly through their own border crossings, or indirectly through the migration of their partners. Analyzing the collected narratives and favouring an approach based on the study of subjectivity, we found that the meaning acquired by migration in the participants' lives rarely adopted a sole meaning. If, in effect, migration in most testimonies is represented as a consequence of economic need and as means by which to provide for the family, we also identify that depending on the biographical situation and the particular occupied position when directly or indirectly experiencing migration, this experience is also subjectively represented as a subjection, a transgression, and/or even a liberation from gendered 'traditional' discourses.
