Empowering migrant women : why agency and rights are not enough /
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| Author / Creator: | Briones, Leah. |
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| Imprint: | Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, c2009. |
| Description: | xii , 231 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Gender in a global/local world |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7712158 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Victims or Victors? Filipina Domestic Workers in Paris and Hong Kong
- Capability and international labour migration for domestic work
- Development: the structural context of global domestic work migration
- Part II. Agency and Filipina Overseas Domestic Work
- Empty agency the oppressed 3rd world woman
- Beyond rights: embodying and empowering agency
- Part III. Agency, Capability and Filipina Overseas Domestic Workers
- The FODW Institution
- A capability approach to agency
- Agency, capability and the migrant domestic worker
- Part IV. Conclusion
- A capable agency approach: livelihood, resources and human rights
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
