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Migrant women and work / editor, Anuja Agrawal.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Women and migration in Asia ; Volume 4.
- Women and migration in Asia ; Volume 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Employment--Foreign countries.
- Women.
- Foreign workers, Asian.
- Women migrant labor--Asia.
- Women migrant labor.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (156 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : SAGE, 2006.
- Summary:
- Papers presented at the International Conference on Women and Migration in Asia, held at New Delhi in December 2003.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 93-5280-264-0
- 93-5280-518-6
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