Migrant women and work
By: editor, Anuja Agrawal
Contributors: Agrawal, Anuja, 1968-
Series: Women and migration in Asia -- v. 4
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Delhi; Thousand Oaks, Calif; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Women migrant labor -- Asia; Alien labor, Asian; Women -- Employment -- Foreign countries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction : women, work and migration in Asia / Anuja Agrawal; title: Asian women workers in international labour migration / Leela Gulati; title: Gendering medical migration : Asian women doctors in the UK / Parvati Raghuram; title: Caring for the Filipino family : how gender differentiates the economic causes of labour migration / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas; title: Towards an analysis of social mobility of transnational migrant women : the case of Filipina domestic workers / Chiho Ogaya; title: Beyond duty and desire : reconsidering motivations for Thai women's migration to Bangkok / Alyson Brody; title: Indian nurses in the Gulf from job opportunity to life strategy / Marie Percot; title: Family, migration and prostitution : the case of Bedia community of North India / Anuja Agrawal; title: The traffic in women : human rights violation or migration for work? / Sheila Jeffreys