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Transnational migration and work in Asia / edited by Kevin Hewison and Ken Young. - 1 online resource (xii, 238 pages) - Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asian studies ; 5 . - Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asian studies ; 5. .

chapter 1 Introduction: globalization and migrant workers in Asia / part PART I Globalization and migration chapter 2 Globalization and the changing management of migrating service workers in the Asia-Pacific / chapter 3 The country and the cities / part PART II Migrant workers, trafficking and the state chapter 4 Lao migrant workers in Thailand / chapter 5 Positioning the product: Indonesian migrant women workers in Taiwan / chapter 6 Thai workers in Hong Kong / chapter 7 Building Hong Kong: Nepalese labour in the construction sector / chapter 8 Filipino nightclub hostesses in Hong Kong: vulnerability to trafficking and other human rights abuses / chapter 9 Migrant workers in Macao: labour and globalization / chapter 10 Exploitation in global supply chains: Burmese migrant workers in Mae Sot, Thailand / part PART III Policy-making and migrant labour chapter 11 From wage labourers to investors? Filipina migrant domestic workers and popular capitalism / chapter 12 Trading labour–trading rights: the regional dynamics of rights recognition for migrant workers in the Asia-Pacific / KEVIN HEWISON KEN YOUNG ADRIAN VICKERS MANIEMAI THONGYOU ANNE LOVEBAND KEVIN HEWISON STEPHEN FROST ROBYN EMERTON ALEX H. CHOI DENNIS ARNOLD KATHLEEN WEEKLEY ROCHELLE BALL.

ISBN: 9780203029084 9781134204045 9781134204083 9781134204090

Standard No.: 10.4324/9780203029084 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Alien labor--Asia.
Transnationalism.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Asia--Emigration and immigration.

LC Class. No.: HD8653.5 / .T72 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 331.544095 / T772