Transnational migration and work in Asia
By: edited by Kevin Hewison and Ken Young.
Contributors: Hewison, Kevin.; Young, Ken, 1942-
Series: Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asian studies ;; 5
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Alien labor -- Asia; Transnationalism; Asia -- Emigration and immigration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: globalization and migrant workers in Asia / Kevin Hewison and Ken Young; title: Globalisation and the changing management of migrating service workers in the Asia Pacific / Ken Young; title: The country and the cities / Adrian Vickers; title: Lao migrant workers in Thailand / Maniemai Thongyou and Dusadee Ayuwat; title: Positioning the product / Anne Loveband; title: Thai workers in Hong Kong / Kevin Hewison; title: Building Hong Kong / Stephen Frost; title: Filipino nightclub hostesses in Hong Kong / Robyn Emerton and Carole Petersen; title: Migrant workers in Macao / Alex H. Choi; title: Exploitation in global supply chains / Dennis Arnold and Kevin Hewison; title: Saving pennies for the state / Kathleen Weekley; title: Trading labour-trading rights / Rochelle Ball and Nicola Piper.