Poverty, gender, and migration
By: editors, Sadhna Arya, Anupama Roy.
Contributors: Arya, Sadhna.; Roy, Anupama.
Series: Women and migration in Asia ;; v. 2
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Women immigrants -- Asia -- Social conditions.; Women migrant labor -- Asia.; Sex discrimination against women -- Asia.; Poverty -- Asia.; Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: When poor women migrate : unraveling issues and concerns / Sadhna Arya and Anupama Roy; title: Bringing home the money : migration and poverty in gender politics in Sri Lanka / Sepali Kottegoda; title: Leaving home : Filipino women surviving migration /  Maureen C. Pagaduan; title: Poverty, globalisation and gendered labour migration in Nepal / Jagannath Adhikari; title: Migration, gender and poverty : family as the missing link / Arjan de Haan; title: Power, culture and resources in gendered seasonal migration from Santal Parganas / Nitya Rao; title: Adivasis, gender and migrations : re-situating women of Jharkhand / Shashank Shekhar Sinha; title: Just surviving or finding space to thrive? the complexity of internal migration of women in Bangladesh / Janet Seeley, Sheila Ryan, Iqbal Alam Khan and Munshi Israil Hossain; title: Migrating for work : rewriting gender relations / Ravinder Kaur; title: Sex work, poverty and migration in Eastern India / Geetanjali Gangoli; title: Solicitation, migration and day wage labour : gender, sexuality and negotiating work in the city / Svati P Shah.