This paper has two main objectives. On the one hand to rethink the dominant paradigm of “remittances for development,” which means that the economic and social profits from migration have a positive incidence in communities of origin through the transfer of money and capacities. From a gender and human development perspective, new inequalities, new dependencies and new deficiencies become evident and feed back into migratory processes. On the other hand, the study also explores analytical points of view, which from a gender perspective seek to highlight the particularities women’s autonomous migration.