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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
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