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Gendering struggles against informal and precarious work /

Table of Contents: “…Prelims -- Gendering struggles against informal and precarious work -- From theory to praxis and back to theory: informal workers' struggles against capitalism and patriarchy in India -- Low-wage worker organizing and advocacy in the USA: comparing domestic workers and day laborers -- Masculine vulnerabilities: the double bind of manhood in global migration -- Organizing Filipina domestic workers in Vancouver, Canada: gendered geographies and community mobilization -- Intersectional histories, overdetermined fortunes: understanding Mexican and US domestic worker movements -- Feminist entanglements with the neoliberal welfare state: NGOS and domestic worker organizing in South Korea -- Index.…”
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International Labour Migration in the Middle East and Asia Issues of Inclusion and Exclusion /

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 Introduction: Migrants in the Middle East and Asia -- Chapter 2 Ethnocracy in the Arab Gulf States: Oil Rent, Migrants, and Authoritarian Regimes -- Chapter 3 Empowerment of Migrant Domestic Workers: Muslim Filipinas in the UAE -- Chapter 4 Complexities of Inclusion and Exclusion amongst Intermarried Filipino Migrant Workers in the UAE -- Chapter 5 'This is Our Home, But We Cannot Stay Here Forever': Second Generation Asian Youth in Kuwait and the UAE -- Chapter 6 Promoting Diversity, Branding the State: Migrant-friendly Discourse in the UAE -- Chapter 7 Brunei Darussalam: Female Labour Force Participation and Foreign Domestic Workers -- Chapter 8 Space of Emancipation or Space of Insecurity: Gendered Dimensions in 'Nepal Town', South Korea -- Chapter 9 International Migration and the Politics of Multiculturalism in Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. .…”
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Enabling gender equality future generations of the global world /

Table of Contents: “…Turning globalization and the diffusion of democracy into opportunities for women and girls / Barbara Wejnert -- Women's portrait through gender lenses / Kanchan Saxena -- Sexual harassment against women in the workplace : a critical study on the regulatory framework in Sri Lanka / Muthukuda Arachchige Dona Shiroma Jeeva Shirajanie Niriella -- Gender, power and knowledge : deciphering the dialectics of inclusion-exclusion in academia in India / Smita Verma -- Trauma and fear of long-distance mothering among Indonesian female migrant domestic workers / Elisabeth Dewi -- Job loss, unemployment benefits, and mental health of middle-aged US women / Yujia Liu ... …”
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Transnational migration, gender and rights

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