Related Books

Asian Women as Transnational Domestic Workers
Language: en
Pages: 452
Authors: Shirlena Huang
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"This volume is an attempt to enhance not only academic research on transnational domestic workers, but also inform governments, nongovernmental organisations,
Wife or Worker?
Language: en
Pages: 234
Authors: Nicola Piper
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-09-01 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume challenges the dominant discourse that perceives Asian women as either "mail-order" brides or overseas workers. Providing the first sustained critiq
Migrant Workers in Asia
Language: en
Pages: 285
Authors: Nicole Constable
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-13 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book provides rich and provocative comparative studies of South and Southeast Asian domestic workers who migrate to other parts of Asia. These studies rang
Follow the Maid
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Olivia Killias
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Gendering Asia

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The book follows the sites and stages of the migration process of Indonesian domestic workers. First the Indonesian migration regime, short-term contract labour
The Asia-Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility
Language: en
Pages: 156
Authors: Catherine Gomes
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-01 - Publisher: Anthem Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The growing mobility of people within and into the Asia Pacific region has created environments of increasing diversity as nations become hosts to both permanen