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Imprint:	New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; London : Sage Publications, 2006.
Description:	1 online resource (226 pages) : maps
Language:	English
Series:	Women and migration in Asia ; v. 4 Women and migration in Asia ; v. 4.
Subject:	Women migrant labor -- Asia. Foreign workers, Asian. Women -- Employment -- Foreign countries. Foreign workers, Asian. Women migrant labor. Asia.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11675507

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Other authors / contributors:	Agrawal, Anuja, 1968-
ISBN:	9789352805181 9352805186 0761934561 076193457X 8178296063 8178296071 9780761934561 9780761934578 9788178296067 9788178296074
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	Papers presented at the International Conference on Women and Migration in Asia, held at New Delhi in December 2003.
Other form:	Print version: Migrant women and work. New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; London : Sage Publications, 2006

Table of Contents:

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.

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