Transnational migration and work in Asia /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hewison, Kevin, Young, Ken, 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Series:Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asian studies ; 5.
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : globalization and migrant workers in Asia / Kevin Hewison and Ken Young
  • Globalization and the changing management of migrating service workers in the Asia-Pacific / Ken Young
  • The country and the cities / Adrian Vickers
  • Lao migrant workers in Thailand / Maniemai Thongyou and Dusadee Ayuwat
  • Positioning the product : Indonesian migrant women workers in Taiwan / Anne Loveband
  • Thai workers in Hong Kong / Kevin Hewison
  • Building Hong Kong : Nepalese labour in the construction sector/ Stephen Frost
  • Filipino nightclub hostesses in Hong Kong : vulnerability to trafficking and other human rights abuses / Robyn Emerton and Carole Petersen
  • Migrant workers in Macao : labour and globalization / Alex H. Choi
  • Exploitation in global supply chains : Burmese migrant workers in Mae Sot, Thailand / Dennis Arnold and Kevin Hewison
  • From wage labourers to investors? : Filipina migrant domestic workers and popular capitalism / Kathleen Weekley
  • Trading labour-trading rights : the regional dynamics of rights recognition for migrant workers in the Asia-Pacific / Rochelle Ball and Nicola Piper.