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Author Constable, Nicole.

Title Migrant workers in Asia : distant divides, intimate connections / edited by Nicole Constable
Published London : Routledge, 2010

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 MELB  331.544095 Con/Mwi  AVAILABLE
Description xi, 213 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents Preface -- Distant divides and intimate connections / Nicole Constable -- On sentimental orientalists, Christian Zionists, and working class cosmopolitans: Filipina domestic workers' journeys to Israel and beyond / Claudia Liebelt -- High in the hierarchy, rich in diversity: Asian domestic workers, their networks, and employers' preferences in Yemen / Marina de Regt -- Of maids and madams: Sri Lankan domestic workers and their employers in Jordan / Elizabeth Frantz -- Advocating for Sri Lankan migrant workers: obstacles and challenges / Michele R. Gamburd -- Transcending the border: transnational imperatives in Singapore's migrant worker rights movement / Lenore Lyons -- The making of a transnational grassroots migrant movement: A case study of Hong Kong's Asian Migrants' coordinating body / Hsiao-Chuan Hsia -- Migrant workers and the many states of protest in Hong Kong / Nicole Constable -- Undocumented Indonesian workers in Macau: The human outcome of colluding intestets / Amy Sim and Vivienne Wee
Summary "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." -- BOOK PUBLISHER WEBSITE
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Foreign workers -- Asia -- Economic conditions.
Foreign workers -- Asia -- Social conditions.
Foreign workers -- Asia.
Foreign workers, Asian -- Economic conditions.
Foreign workers, Asian -- Social conditions.
Household employees -- Asia -- Economic conditions.
Household employees -- Asia -- Social conditions.
SUBJECT Asia -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008615
Author Constable, Nicole.
ISBN 0415578140 (hbk.)
9780415578141 (hbk.)