| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 238 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-233) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : women in global migration -- Economic development and immigration policies : the role of the state and society in destination countries -- Value-driven emigration policies : the role of the state in countries of origin -- Why gendered policies? The state, society, and symbolic gender politics -- The road from home : women's autonomy, migration, and the trapping mechanism -- Social legitimacy : the nexus of globalization and women's migration -- Conclusion : toward global governance of migration -- Epilogue : migration and women's empowerment. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women foreign workers -- Asia.
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Women foreign workers. |
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Asia. |
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Women's rights -- Asia.
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Women's rights. |
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Women in development -- Asia.
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Women in development. |
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Migration, Internal -- Asia.
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Migration, Internal. |
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Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.
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Emigration and immigration. |
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Government policy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Oishi, Nana. Women in motion. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2005 0804746370 (DLC) 2005014912 (OCoLC)60491944 |
| ISBN |
142374943X (electronic book) |
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9781423749431 (electronic book) |
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9780804766906 |
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0804766908 |
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0804746370 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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9780804746373 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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0804746389 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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9780804746380 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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