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Migrant women and work /
This volume is focused on Asian women who migrate either globally or across the Asian continent or within their respective countries in order to seek work. The contributors cover a broad terrain of issues including the changing gender composition of migration streams; the motivations of individual m...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Langue: | English |
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New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; London :
Sage Publications,
2006.
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| Accès en ligne: | http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip067/2006001094.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0659/2006001094-d.html |
Table des matières:
- Introduction : women, work and migration in Asia / Anuja Agrawal
- Asian women workers in international labour migration / Leela Gulati
- Gendering medical migration : Asian women doctors in the UK / Parvati Raghuram
- Caring for the Filipino family : how gender differentiates the economic causes of labour migration / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
- Towards an analysis of social mobility of transnational migrant women : the case of Filipina domestic workers / Chiho Ogaya
- Beyond duty and desire : reconsidering motivations for Thai women's migration to Bangkok / Alyson Brody
- Indian nurses in the Gulf from job opportunity to life strategy / Marie Percot
- Family, migration and prostitution : the case of Bedia community of North India / Anuja Agrawal
- The traffic in women : human rights violation or migration for work? / Sheila Jeffreys.