Gender and labour migration in Asia
Publisher: IOM International Organization for Migration
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Geneva, Switzerland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9789290684534
Subjects: Foreign workers; Migrant labor; Sexual division of labor; Asians; Migrations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Dina Ionesco and Christine Aghazarm; title: Gender and labour migration in Asia / Nicola Piper; title: Gender roles and support networks of spouses of migrant workers / prepared for IOM Sri Lanka by Swarna Jayaweera and Malsiri Dias; title: Impact of short term male migration on their wives left behind: a case study of Bangladesh / by Priyanka Debnath and Nasheeba Selim; title: Working in Italy: the experience of Filipino migrant workers and their families / Stella P. Go for IOM Philippines; title: Gender and migration from Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar to Thailand / Aree Jampaklay, John Bryant and Rita Litwiller; title: The context of gender-based violence for Vietnamese women migrant factory workers in southern Viet Nam / Erika Steibelt; title: The impact of gender on rural-to-urban migration in China / Tamara Jacka; title: Gender and migration: public and social policy interventions concluding remarks / Nicola Piper.