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1 online resource (x, 205 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Asian arguments |
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Asian arguments.
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| Contents |
Asian Arguments; About the Authors; Acknowledgements; Map: Thailand and surrounding countries; Abbreviations; 1 Thailand's hidden workforce: Burmese women factory workers; Burmese migrant workers in Thailand: hidden from the global gaze; The context: push-and-pull factors underlying Burmese migration to Thailand; Background to the research; Burmese women workers in Thailand: nimble fingers and docile bodies; Burmese migrant workers: citizenship and entitlement in a hostile world; Who cares? Burmese women in Thailand as carers and workers |
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Shifting terrain: Burmese migrant women's responses to economic and political change2 Thailand's industrialisation and labour migration policies; Thailand's industrialisation before and after the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s; Decentralisation of industry; Demand for and control of migrant labour: regulating the irregular; Figure 2.1 Registered migrants 1997-2008; 3 Burmese women migrant workers in Thailand's export industries; The study areas; Figure 3.1 Apparel factories and workers in Tak province; Migrant women's journeys; Reconstructing families; Remittances as obligation |
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Marriage, children and changing relationshipsWomen's journeys: agency, subordination and change; 4 Migrant women in Thailand's factories: working conditions, struggles and experiences; Who are the women workers?; What kind of factories do they work in?; Working conditions; Security of employment and mobility; Accommodation and food; Pay and deductions; Safety, security and harassment, deportation; Relations with friends; 5 Burmese migrant women and families in Thailand: reproduction, children and care; Pregnancy and childbirth |
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Table 5.1 Country of birth of first child by respondent's locationChildcare; Table 5.2 Childcare patterns for children under 6 years old for those respondents who delivered a child after coming to Thailand, by location; Health care; Education; 6 After the crisis: new struggles and possibilities; Effect of the economic crisis on migrant workers' employment in Thailand; Dealing with the crisis: coping strategies of migrant workers; Retrenchment and strikes; Harassment, xenophobia and prejudice; After the crisis -- to stay or to return?; 7 Burmese migrant workers between two worlds |
| Summary |
Millions of Burmese women migrate into Thailand each year to form the basis of the Thai agricultural and manufacturing workforce. This insightful book ventures into a part of the global economy Western observers rarely witness. Based on unique empirical research, it provides a gendered account of the role of women migrant workers in Thailand's factories and interrogates the ways in which they manage their families and their futures |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-198) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Women foreign workers -- Thailand -- Economic conditions
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Women foreign workers -- Thailand -- Social conditions
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Women foreign workers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Thailand
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Foreign workers, Burmese -- Thailand -- Economic conditions
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Foreign workers, Burmese -- Thailand -- Social conditions
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Women migrant labor -- Burma
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Development studies.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Economic history
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Women foreign workers -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Women foreign workers -- Social conditions
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Women migrant labor
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Arbeitnehmerin
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Migration
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| SUBJECT |
Thailand -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00002769
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Burma
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Thailand
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Birma
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Thailand
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kusakabe, Kyoko, author.
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| ISBN |
9781848139862 |
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1848139861 |
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9781848139879 |
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184813987X |
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1280769203 |
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9781280769207 |
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9786613679970 |
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6613679976 |
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