Poverty, gender and migration /

Poverty, gender and migration / editors, Sadhna Arya, Anupama Roy. - New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2006. - 261 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Women and migration in Asia ; v. 2 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

When poor women migrate : unraveling issues and concerns / Sadhna Arya and Anupama Roy -- Bringing home the money : migration and poverty in gender politics in Sri Lanka / Sepali Kottegoda -- Leaving home : Filipino women surviving migration / Maureen C. Pagaduan -- Poverty, globalisation and gendered labour migration in Nepal / Jagannath Adhikari -- Migration, gender, poverty : family as the missing link? / Arjan de Haan -- Power, culture and resources in gendered seasonal migration from Santal Parganas / Nitya Rao -- Adivasis, gender and migrations : re-situating women of Jharkhand / Shashank Shekhar Sinha -- Just surviving or finding space to thrive? : the complexity of internal migration of women in Bangladesh / Janet Seeley, Sheila Ryan, Iqbal Alam Khan and Munshi Israil Hossain -- Migrating for work : rewriting gender relations / Ravinder Kaur -- Sex work, poverty and migration in Eastern India / Geetanjali Gangoli -- Solicitation, migration and day wage labour : gender, sexuality and negotiating work in the city / Svati P Shah.

817829608X (hbk. : India)

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Women immigrants--Social conditions.--Asia
Women migrant labor--Asia.
Sex discrimination against women--Asia.
Poverty--Asia.


Asia--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

JV6347 / .P68 2006

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