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Author:   Nicola Piper (University of Wales, Swansea, UK) ,  Nicola Piper
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780415874496

ISBN 10:   0415874491
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   29 September 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. International Migration and Gendered Axes of Stratification – Introduction Nicola Piper 2. Finding a Place in Stratified Structures: Migrant Women in North America Monica Boyd and Deanna Pikkov 3. Gendered Migrations, Livelihoods and Entitlements in European Welfare Regimes Eleonore Kofman 4. Gendered Migration in Oceania: Trends, Policies and Outcomes Siew-Ean Khoo, Elsie Ho and Carmen Voigt-Graf 5. Gender, Migration and Livelihoods: Migrant Women in Southern Africa Belinda Dodson 6. Feminised Migration in East and Southeast Asia and the Securing of Livelihoods Nicola Piper and Keiko Yamanaka 7. Gendered Migrations in the Americas – Mexico as country of origin, destination and transit Martha Luz Rojas Wiesner and Hugo Angeles Cruz 8. Political Participation and Empowerment of Foreign Workers - Gendered Advocacy and Migrant Labour Organising in Southeast and East Asia Nicola Piper 9. Using Human Rights Law To Empower Migrant Domestic Workers in the Inter-American System Margaret L. Satterthwaite

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Nicola Piper is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, the National University of Singapore. She was previously researcher at the Australian National University and the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies in Copenhagen and has also worked as consultant with UNRISD. She has written extensively written on gendered aspects of migration, especially in the area of governance, rights and empowerment, and on the human and labour rights of migrant workers. She has previous experience with editing inter-disciplinary volumes (Women and Work in Globalising Asia, 2002, Routledge; Transnational Activism in Asia, 2004, Routledge; Wife or Worker? Asians’ Marriage and Migration, 2003, Rowman & Littlefield). In her own work she has promoted a broad inter-disciplinary conception of migration research and has also. Despite having mainly worked on Asia, she has more recently begun to take a more global outlook, especially when consulting various UN affiliated institutions (UNRISD, Global Commission for International Migration, the IOM).

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