1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453998003321

Autore

Briones Leah

Titolo

Empowering migrant women : why agency and rights are not enough / / Leah Briones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-14415-5

1-315-57939-1

1-282-05462-7

9786612054624

0-7546-9667-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Collana

Gender in a global/local world

Disciplina

331.408624

331.4089/9921

Soggetti

Women migrant labor - Philippines

Foreign workers, Philippine

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2009 by Ashgate Pub.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgments; Glossary; PART I: Victims or Victors? Filipina Domestic Workers in Paris and Hong Kong; 1 Capability and International Labor Migration for Domestic Work; 2 Development: The Structural Context of Global Domestic Work Migration; PART II: Agency and Filipina Overseas Domestic Work; 3 Empty Agency: The Oppressed Third World Woman; 4 Beyond Rights: Embodying and Empowering Agency; PART III: Agency, Capability and Filipina Overseas Domestic Workers; 5 The FODW Institution

6 A Capability Approach to Agency7 Agency, Capability and the Migrant Domestic Worker; PART IV: Conclusion; 8 A Capable Agency Approach: Livelihood, Resources and Human Rights; Appendices; Appendix 1 Respondents' Profiles; Appendix 2 Profiles of NGOs and Associations Contacted during Fieldwork; Appendix 3 Typical Migration Cycle of a Migrant Worker; Appendix 4 RESPECT-Migrant Domestic Workers Charter of Rights: Rights, Equality, Solidarity, Power, Europe,



Cooperation, Today; Appendix 5 Interview Schedule (English Version); Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Based on insights from Filipina experiences of domestic work in Paris and Hong Kong, this volume breaks through the polarized thinking and migration-centric policy action on the protection of migrant women domestic workers from abuse to link migrants' rights and victimization with livelihood, migration and development.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996394196803316

Titolo

Quæstiones quas pro modulo discutiendæ sub clærissimo pariter ac Reverendissimo Domino D. Crescentio Mathero [[electronic resource] ] : Academiæ Harvardinæ quæ est Cantabrigiæ Nov-Anglorum præside lectissimo in comitiis publicis proponunt laureæ magistralis candidati : die tertio quintilis, MDCC

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Cambridge, Mass., : B. Green and J. Allen, 1695]

Descrizione fisica

1 broadside

Altri autori (Persone)

MatherIncrease <1639-1723.>

Soggetti

Dissertations, Academic

Universities and colleges - Massachusetts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Printed within an ornamental border identified as one used after May, 1695, only by the printing firm of Batholomew Green and John Allen of Boston--Cf. A dictionary of colonial American printers' ornaments ... / Elizabeth C. Reilly. Worcester, Mass. : American Antiquarian Society, 1975, p. 125.

Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0062