Migrant women and work /
editor, Anuja Agrawal.
- New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; London : Sage, 2006.
- 226 p. : maps ; 23 cm.
- Women and migration in Asia ; v. 4 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : women, work and migration in Asia / Anuja Agrawal -- Asian women workers in international labour migration / Leela Gulati -- Gendering medical migration : Asian women doctors in the UK / Parvati Raghuram -- Caring for the Filipino family : how gender differentiates the economic causes of labour migration / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas -- Towards an analysis of social mobility of transnational migrant women : the case of Filipina domestic workers / Chiho Ogaya -- Beyond duty and desire : reconsidering motivations for Thai women's migration to Bangkok / Alyson Brody -- Indian nurses in the Gulf from job opportunity to life strategy / Marie Percot -- Family, migration and prostitution : the case of Bedia community of North India / Anuja Agrawal -- The traffic in women : human rights violation or migration for work? / Sheila Jeffreys.
Papers presented at the International Conference on Women and Migration in Asia, held at New Delhi in December 2003.
0761934561 (US : hbk) 076193457X (US : pbk) 8178296063 (India : hbk) 8178296071 (India : pbk)
2006001094
Women migrant labor--Asia.
Foreign workers, Asian.
Women--Employment--Foreign countries.
HD6181.85 / .E97 2006
331.408691 / MIG
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : women, work and migration in Asia / Anuja Agrawal -- Asian women workers in international labour migration / Leela Gulati -- Gendering medical migration : Asian women doctors in the UK / Parvati Raghuram -- Caring for the Filipino family : how gender differentiates the economic causes of labour migration / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas -- Towards an analysis of social mobility of transnational migrant women : the case of Filipina domestic workers / Chiho Ogaya -- Beyond duty and desire : reconsidering motivations for Thai women's migration to Bangkok / Alyson Brody -- Indian nurses in the Gulf from job opportunity to life strategy / Marie Percot -- Family, migration and prostitution : the case of Bedia community of North India / Anuja Agrawal -- The traffic in women : human rights violation or migration for work? / Sheila Jeffreys.
Papers presented at the International Conference on Women and Migration in Asia, held at New Delhi in December 2003.
0761934561 (US : hbk) 076193457X (US : pbk) 8178296063 (India : hbk) 8178296071 (India : pbk)
2006001094
Women migrant labor--Asia.
Foreign workers, Asian.
Women--Employment--Foreign countries.
HD6181.85 / .E97 2006
331.408691 / MIG