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UNINA9910825472903321 |
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Titolo |
Migrant women and work / / editor, Anuja Agrawal |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Los Angeles : , : SAGE, , 2006 |
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ISBN |
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93-5280-264-0 |
93-5280-518-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (156 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Collana |
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Women and migration in Asia ; ; Volume 4 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women - Employment - Foreign countries |
Foreign workers, Asian |
Women migrant labor - Asia |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 ParrenĖas -- 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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Papers presented at the International Conference on Women and Migration in Asia, held at New Delhi in December 2003. |
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