Women and Migration in Asia, Vol. IV : Migrant Women and Work
Contents: Series introduction. 1. Introduction: women, work and migration in Asia/Anuja Agrawal. 2. Asian women workers in international labour migration: an overview/Leela Gulati. 3. Gendering medical migration: Asian women doctors in the UK/Parvati Raghuram. 4. Caring for the Filipino family: how gender differentiates the economic causes of labour migration/Rhacel Salazar Parrenas. 5. Towards an analysis of social mobility of transnational migrant women: the case of Filipina domestic workers/Chiho Ogaya. 6. Beyond duty and desire: reconsidering motivations for Thai women\'s migration to Bangkok/Alyson Brody. 7. Indian nurses in the Gulf: from job opportunity to life strategy/Marie Percot. 8. Family, migration and prostitution: the case of Bedia Community of North India/Anuja Agrawal. 9. The traffic in women: human rights violation or migration for work?/Sheila Jeffreys. Index.
"This volume is focused on Asian women who migrate either globally or across the Asian continent or within their respective countries in order to seek work. The contributors cover a broad terrain of issues including the changing gender composition of migration streams; the motivations of individual migrants; the different outcomes of male and female migration; and discernible patterns in the migration of women.
The distinguishing feature of this collection of original essays and case studies is that it concentrates on \'solo\' migrant women. The contributors show that even though migration involves moving away from their homes, the family, both as an institution and an ideology, constrains and shapes the choices of migrant women. Additionally, the case studies demonstrate that gender ideologies remain highly resistant to modification even consequent to a radical alteration in the household division of labour owing to women\'s migration. On the other hand, women see migration as a way of achieving greater autonomy as well as fulfilling a role as a responsible adult.
Overall, the volume argues that the structural ramifications of women\'s migration extend beyond the lives of the migrant women themselves in so far as their labour plays an important role in shaping gender relations in the societies of both the migrants and their hosts.
An important contribution to the literature on migration, this volume will attract the attention of all social scientists but particularly those studying migration, gender, family, labour, sociology and anthropology."
