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Title

Asian women as transnational domestic workers / edited by Shirlena Huang, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Noor Abdul Rahman.

Author

International Workshop on Contemporary Perspectives on Asian Transnational Domestic Workers (2004 : Singapore)

Publication

Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Academic, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Huang, Shirlena.
• Yeoh, Brenda S. A.
• Noor Abdul Rahman.

Description

xvii, 428 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Gender and women studies

Uniform Title

Gender and women studies.

Subjects

• Women > Employment > Foreign countries > Congresses
• Asians > Employment > Foreign countries > Congresses
• Women household employees > Foreign countries > Congresses
• Foreign workers, Asian > Foreign countries > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Caring for the world : Filipino domestic workers gone global / Maruja M.B. Asis -- Indonesian international domestic workers : contemporary developments and issues / Graeme Hugo -- "Lentils there, lentils here!" : Sri Lankan domestic labour in the Middle East / Michele Ruth Gamburd -- Conditional mobility : the migration of Bangladeshi female domestic workers / Rita Afsar -- Global maid trade : domestic workers in the global market / Parvati Raghuram -- Hong Kong as a destination for migrant domestic workers / Vivienne Wee and Amy Sim -- Surrogate family, disposable labour and stratified others : transnational domestic workers in Taiwan / Pei-Chia Lan -- "Dignity overdue" : transnational domestic workers in Singapore / Noor Abdul Rahman, Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Shirlena Huang -- Neither at work nor at home : Asian transnational domestic workers in Malaysia / Christine B. N. Chin -- "Burmese" housemaids as undocumented workers in Thailand / Mika Toyota -- Success Stories? : Filipina migrant domestic workers in Canada / Deirdre McKay -- Changing trends in paid domestic work in South Korea / Hye-Kyuang Lee -- Unpaid domestic work : gender, state policy and the labour market in Japan / Tomoko Nakamatsu -- Male breadwinners and white Australians : the role of employment and immigration policies in shaping domestic labour patterns in Australia / Janeen Baxter

ISBN

• 9789812103864
• 9812103864

LCCN

• 2005469698
• 9789812103864

OCLC

• ocm63114549
• 63114549
• SCSB-5297480

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries