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Title Wife or worker? : Asian women and migration / edited by Nicola Piper and Mina Roces ; foreword by Eleonore Kofman.

Publication Info. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2003]
©2003

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  331.40959 W653W    Check Shelf
Description x, 219 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Asia/Pacific/perspectives
Asia/Pacific/perspectives.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : Marriage and migration in an age of globalization / Nicola Piper and Mina Roces -- Filipinas in Canada--de-skilling as a push toward marriage / Deirdre McKay -- Does marriage "liberate" women from sex work? Thai women in Germany / Prapairat R. Mix and Nicola Piper -- Sisterhood is local : Filipino women in Mount Isa / Mina Roces -- Gender, marriage, and skilled migration : the case of Singaporeans in China / Katie Willis and Brenda Yeoh -- Reflections on transnational life-course and migratory patterns of middle-class women--preliminary observations from Malaysia / Michelle Lee and Nicola Piper -- Migrating for the children : Taiwanese American women in transnational families / Maria W.L. Chee -- Wife, mother, and maid : the triple role of Filipino domestic workers in Spain and Italy / Rogelia Pe-Pua -- International marriage through introduction agencies : social and legal realities of "Asian" wives of Japanese men / Tomoko Nakamatsu.
Subject Women foreign workers -- Southeast Asia.
Women in development -- Southeast Asia.
Southeast Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects.
Women foreign workers -- East Asia.
Women in development -- East Asia.
East Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects.
Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst00908694
Women foreign workers. (OCoLC)fst01734121
Women in development. (OCoLC)fst01177865
East Asia. (OCoLC)fst01243628
Southeast Asia. (OCoLC)fst01240499
Ausländische Arbeitnehmerin. (DE-588)4003736-8
Internationale Migration. (DE-588)4162051-3
Südostasien. (DE-588)4058448-3
Ausländische Arbeitnehmerin.
Migration.
Südostasien.
Femmes dans le développement -- Asie du Nord-Est.
Femmes dans le développement -- Asie du Sud-Est.
Travailleuses étrangères -- Asie du Nord-Est.
Travailleuses étrangères -- Asie du Sud-Est.
Asie du Nord-Est -- Émigration et immigration -- Aspect économique.
Asie du Sud-Est -- Émigration et immigration -- Aspect économique.
Added Author Piper, Nicola.
Roces, Mina, 1959-
Other Form: Online version: Wife or worker? Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2003 (OCoLC)606951739
ISBN 0742523772 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780742523777 (cloth : alk. paper)
0742523780 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780742523784 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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