Empowering migrant women : why agency and rights are not enough

Empowering migrant women : why agency and rights are not enough / Leah Briones.

Based on insights from Filipina experiences of domestic work in Paris and Hong Kong, this volume breaks through the polarized thinking and migration-centric policy action on the protection of migrant women domestic workers from abuse to link migrants' rights and victimization with livelihood, m...

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Main Author: Briones, Leah
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., ©2009.
Series:Gender in a global/local world.
Subjects:
Women migrant labor > Philippines.
Foreign workers, Filipino.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Foreign workers, Filipino
Women migrant labor
Philippines
Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary:Based on insights from Filipina experiences of domestic work in Paris and Hong Kong, this volume breaks through the polarized thinking and migration-centric policy action on the protection of migrant women domestic workers from abuse to link migrants' rights and victimization with livelihood, migration and development.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 231 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-228) and index.
ISBN:9780754696674
0754696677
9780754675327
0754675327
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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