Thailand's hidden workforce : Burmese migrant women factory workers / Ruth Pearson & Kyoko Kusakabe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pearson, Ruth, 1945- author.

Kusakabe, Kyoko, author.

Series:

Asian arguments.

Asian arguments

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women foreign workers--Thailand--Economic conditions.

Women foreign workers.

Women foreign workers--Thailand--Social conditions.

Women foreign workers--Legal status, laws, etc--Thailand.

Foreign workers, Burmese--Thailand--Economic conditions.

Foreign workers, Burmese.

Foreign workers, Burmese--Thailand--Social conditions.

Women migrant labor--Burma.

Women migrant labor.

Thailand--Economic conditions.

Thailand.

Physical Description:

x, 205 p. : ill., map.

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Millions of Burmese women migrate into Thailand each year to form the basis of the Thai agricultural and manufacturing workforce. This insightful book ventures into a part of the global economy Western observers rarely witness. Based on unique empirical research, it provides a gendered account of the role of women migrant workers in Thailand's factories and interrogates the ways in which they manage their families and their futures.

Contents:

Asian Arguments; About the Authors; Acknowledgements; Map: Thailand and surrounding countries; Abbreviations; 1 Thailand's hidden workforce: Burmese women factory workers; Burmese migrant workers in Thailand: hidden from the global gaze; The context: push-and-pull factors underlying Burmese migration to Thailand; Background to the research; Burmese women workers in Thailand: nimble fingers and docile bodies; Burmese migrant workers: citizenship and entitlement in a hostile world; Who cares? Burmese women in Thailand as carers and workers.

Shifting terrain: Burmese migrant women's responses to economic and political change2 Thailand's industrialisation and labour migration policies; Thailand's industrialisation before and after the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s; Decentralisation of industry; Demand for and control of migrant labour: regulating the irregular; Figure 2.1 Registered migrants 1997-2008; 3 Burmese women migrant workers in Thailand's export industries; The study areas; Figure 3.1 Apparel factories and workers in Tak province; Migrant women's journeys; Reconstructing families; Remittances as obligation.

Marriage, children and changing relationshipsWomen's journeys: agency, subordination and change; 4 Migrant women in Thailand's factories: working conditions, struggles and experiences; Who are the women workers?; What kind of factories do they work in?; Working conditions; Security of employment and mobility; Accommodation and food; Pay and deductions; Safety, security and harassment, deportation; Relations with friends; 5 Burmese migrant women and families in Thailand: reproduction, children and care; Pregnancy and childbirth.

Table 5.1 Country of birth of first child by respondent's locationChildcare; Table 5.2 Childcare patterns for children under 6 years old for those respondents who delivered a child after coming to Thailand, by location; Health care; Education; 6 After the crisis: new struggles and possibilities; Effect of the economic crisis on migrant workers' employment in Thailand; Dealing with the crisis: coping strategies of migrant workers; Retrenchment and strikes; Harassment, xenophobia and prejudice; After the crisis

to stay or to return?; 7 Burmese migrant workers between two worlds.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-198) and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9786613679970

9781350222892

1350222895

9781848139879

184813987X

9781280769207

1280769203

9781848139862

1848139861

OCLC:

795120475