Migrant women and work. Vol. 4

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Agrawal, Anuja , 1968- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications , c2006
Series:Women and migration in Asia
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Online Access:Table of contents only
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: women, work and migration in Asia
  • 2. Asian women workers in international labour migration: an overview
  • 3. Gendering medical migration: Asian women doctors in the UK
  • 4. Caring for the Filipino family: how gender differentiates the economic causes of labour migration
  • 5. Towards an analysis of social mobility of transnational migrant women: the case of Filipina domestic workers
  • 6. Beyond duty and desire: reconsidering motivations for Thai women's migration to Bangkok
  • 7. Indian nurses in the Gulf: from job opportunity to life strategy
  • 8. Family, migration, and prostitution: the case of bedia community of North India
  • 9. The traffic in women: human rights violation or migration for work?