Thailand's hidden workforce Burmese migrant women factory workers /
Millions of Burmese women migrate into Thailand each year to form the basis of the Thai agricultural and manufacturing workforce. This insightful book ventures into a part of the global economy Western observers rarely witness. Based on unique empirical research, it provides a gendered account of th...
| Основен автор: | Pearson, Ruth, 1945- |
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| Други автори: | Kusakabe, Kyoko. |
| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
London ; New York :
Zed Books,
2012.
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| Серия: |
Asian arguments.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=459506 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Thailand's hidden workforce. |
Съдържание:
- Asian Arguments; About the Authors; Acknowledgements; Map: Thailand and surrounding countries; Abbreviations; 1 Thailand's hidden workforce: Burmese women factory workers; Burmese migrant workers in Thailand: hidden from the global gaze; The context: push-and-pull factors underlying Burmese migration to Thailand; Background to the research; Burmese women workers in Thailand: nimble fingers and docile bodies; Burmese migrant workers: citizenship and entitlement in a hostile world; Who cares? Burmese women in Thailand as carers and workers.
- Shifting terrain: Burmese migrant women's responses to economic and political change2 Thailand's industrialisation and labour migration policies; Thailand's industrialisation before and after the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s; Decentralisation of industry; Demand for and control of migrant labour: regulating the irregular; Figure 2.1 Registered migrants 1997-2008; 3 Burmese women migrant workers in Thailand's export industries; The study areas; Figure 3.1 Apparel factories and workers in Tak province; Migrant women's journeys; Reconstructing families; Remittances as obligation.
- Marriage, children and changing relationshipsWomen's journeys: agency, subordination and change; 4 Migrant women in Thailand's factories: working conditions, struggles and experiences; Who are the women workers?; What kind of factories do they work in?; Working conditions; Security of employment and mobility; Accommodation and food; Pay and deductions; Safety, security and harassment, deportation; Relations with friends; 5 Burmese migrant women and families in Thailand: reproduction, children and care; Pregnancy and childbirth.
- Table 5.1 Country of birth of first child by respondent's locationChildcare; Table 5.2 Childcare patterns for children under 6 years old for those respondents who delivered a child after coming to Thailand, by location; Health care; Education; 6 After the crisis: new struggles and possibilities; Effect of the economic crisis on migrant workers' employment in Thailand; Dealing with the crisis: coping strategies of migrant workers; Retrenchment and strikes; Harassment, xenophobia and prejudice; After the crisis
- to stay or to return?; 7 Burmese migrant workers between two worlds.