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List of contents
Westview Replica Editions -- Preface -- Introduction -- Urbanization, Migration, and the Status of Women -- Overview and Theoretical Perspectives -- The Migration of Women to Cities: A Comparative Perspective -- Female Migration: A Conceptual Framework -- Women in Rural-Urban Circulation Networks: Implications for Social Structural Change -- Trends, Policies, and Programs: National Perspectives -- Rural-to-Urban Migration of Women in India: Patterns and Implications -- The Female Migrant in Pakistan -- Female Rural-to-Urban Migration in Peninsular Malaysia -- Female Migration in Thailand -- The Migration of Women in the Philippines -- Urban Migrant Women in the Republic of Korea -- Women Migrants in Asian Cities: Case Studies -- Migration of Women Workers in Peninsular Malaysia: Impact and Implications -- Female Migrants in Bangkok Metropolis -- The Migration of Rural Women to Taipei -- New Models and Traditional Networks: Migrant Women in Tehran -- Economic Activity and Adjustment of Female Migrants: Analytic Models -- Migrant Women at Work in Asia -- Female Asian Immigrants in Honolulu: Adaptation and Success -- Philippine Urbanism and the Status of Women -- Adaptation of Polynesian Female Migrants in New Zealand -- Conclusion -- Women in Asian Cities: Policies, Public Services, and Research
About the author
Fawcett, James T
Summary
This book is a comprehensive examination of female migration and the situation of urban women in Asia. Drawing upon the insights of sociologists, anthropologists, economists, geographers, and demographers, it documents the changes that are in progress and looks in depth at the causes and consequences of emerging patterns of female mobility.
