| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 416 pages) |
| Series |
GMS development series; 2 |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Political Science and Policy Studies Supplement
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| Contents |
Migrants of the Mekong / Hossein Jalilian and Glenda Reyes -- Economic costs and benefits of labour migration, case of Cambodia / Chan Sophal -- Economic costs and benefits of labour migration, case of Lao PDR / Department of Statistics, National Economic Research Institute -- Economic costs and benefits of labour migration, case of Thailand / Srawooth Paitoonpong [and others] -- Economic costs and benefits of labour migration, case of Vietnam / Nguyen Thi Kim Dung and Cu Chi Loi -- Migrants of the Mekong / Hossein Jalilian and Glenda Reyes |
| Summary |
International labour migration can be characterized in three ways - as human aspiration, tradition, and necessity. For some people, working overseas is a dream. For others, international labour mobility is a tradition. For a great number of people however, international labour migration is an economic necessity. It is the only viable solution to realize their basic human right to a decent life. GMS worker movements to Thailand typify all three characterizations of international labour mobility. While this book focuses on the economic dimensions of international labour emigration, principally f |
| Analysis |
Multi-User |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Foreign workers, Cambodian.
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Labor market -- Mekong River
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor.
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Emigration and immigration
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Foreign workers, Cambodian
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Labor market
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| SUBJECT |
Mekong River -- Emigration and immigration
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| Subject |
Mekong River
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jalilian, Hossein, 1951- editor.
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| LC no. |
2012330325 |
| ISBN |
9789814311908 |
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9814311901 |
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9814311898 |
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9789814311892 |
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9814345334 |
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9789814345330 |
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