Migrant Domestic Workers in Asia

Informationen zum Autor Nicole Constable is Professor of anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author ofRomance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals! Virtual Ethnography! and Mail Order Marriages (University of California Press! 2003)! and the editor ofCross-Border Marriages: Gender and Mobility in Transnational Asia (University of Pennsylvania Press! 2005). Klappentext Scholars and scholar-activists promote new mappings and methodologies for studying migrant labor as they explore the lives and politics of South and Southeast Asian migrant domestic workers who move within and between multiple intersecting regions of Asia! broadly defined. This book was published as a special issue of "Critical Asian Studies". Zusammenfassung Scholars and scholar-activists promote new mappings and methodologies for studying migrant labor as they explore the lives and politics of South and Southeast Asian migrant domestic workers who move within and between multiple intersecting regions of Asia, broadly defined. This book was published as a special issue of Critical Asian Studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Nicole Constable 2. On Sentimental Orientalists! Christian Zionists! and Working Class Cosmopolitans: Filipina Domestic Workers' Journeys to Israel and Beyond Claudia Liebelt 3.High in the Hierarchy! Rich in Diversity: Asian Domestic Workers! Their Networks! and Employers' Preferences in Yemen Marina de Regt 4.Of Maids and Madams: Sri Lankan Domestic Workers and Their Employers in Jordan Elizabeth Frantz 5. Advocating for Sri Lankan Migrant Workers: Obstacles and Challenges Michele R. Gamburd 6.Transcending the Border: Transnational Imperatives in Singapore's Migrant Worker Rights Movement Lenore Lyons 7.The Making of a Transnational Grassroots Migrant Movement: A Case Study of Hong Kong's Asian Migrants' Coordinating Body Hsiao-Chuan Hsia 8.Migrant Workers and the Many States of Protest in Hong Kong Nicole Constable 9.Undocumented Indonesian Workers in Macau: The Human Outcome of Colluding Interests Amy Sim and Vivienne Wee ...

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• Authors: Nicole Constable, Nicole (University of Pittsburgh Constable, Constable Nicole
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.03.2010
• EAN: 9780415578141
• ISBN: 978-0-415-57814-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Anthropology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Home-Based Businesses, Migration, immigration & emigration, Regional Studies, Migration, immigration and emigration, Regional / International studies, Gender studies: women, Sociology: work & labour, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Gender studies: women and girls, Human Geography, Sociology: work and labour, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General