This introductory chapter foregrounds the evolving landscape of women’s migration to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries by interrogating the gendered, racialised, and class-differentiated structures that mediate women’s mobility across diverse skill categories. Women now constitute a markedly diverse migrant cohort, encompassing low-skilled, semi-skilled, and high-skilled workers, whose experiences are shaped by intersecting social hierarchies and shifting labour market demands. However, the dominant scholarly focus on domestic workers and nurses has produced a partial epistemology that obscures the heterogeneity of women migrants, their migration trajectories, and intersectional experiences. The chapter’s conceptual framing advances an explicitly intersectional approach. It underscores the need to reconceptualise women migrants as active agents rather than passive subjects of vulnerability or exploitation and develop equitable, gender-responsive migration governance frameworks that reflect the realities of contemporary labour markets. Ultimately, it positions the book as a critical intervention in global migration and gender studies scholarship, offering theoretically informed and empirically grounded insights that reimagine gendered mobilities in one of the world’s most significant migration corridors.