Development
Volume 49, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 134-136

Struggles from within: Migrant women in Southeast Asia (Article)

Sarausad M.R.G.A.
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Abstract

Mary Rose Geraldine aims to draw out the parallel experiences of migrant women Filipina and Burmese domestic workers, in Bangkok, Thailand. She looks at the contradictory effects of migration in these women's lives by analysing women's gains alongside their vulnerabilities; highlighting their struggles in the context of displacement and precariousness. She asks how do these women resist certain forms of impositions and inequalities and how did their individual struggles contribute to the formation of social spaces, as new sites of 'being'? © 2006 Society for International Development.

Author Keywords

Solidarity Social space Enabling environments Economic rights

Index Keywords

Southeast Asia Eurasia migrants experience Thailand Bangkok Central Region [Thailand] migrant worker womens status Asia

Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-33646416216&doi=10.1057%2fpalgrave.development.1100217&partnerID=40&md5=67b2fd813eda0fdb6e9ff5ffb4251753

DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.development.1100217
ISSN: 10116370
Cited by: 1
Original Language: English