Transnational labour migration, remittances and the changing family in Asia. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Lan Anh Hoang, Brenda S.A. Yeoh.
• Editors: Hoàng, Lan Anh; Yeoh, Brenda S. A
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Migration, Remittances and the Family; Lan Anh Hoang and Brenda S.A. Yeoh PART I: REMITTANCES AS GENDERED PROCESSES 2. Transnational Remittances And Gendered Status Enhancement In Rural Bangladesh; Nitya Rao 3. Remittances And Women's Agency: Managing Networks Of Obligation Among Burmese Migrant Workers In Thailand; Kyoko Kusakabe And Ruth Pearson 4. 'Good' Sons And 'Dutiful' Daughters: A Structural Symbolic Interactionist Analysis Of The Migration And Remittance Behaviour Of Northern Thai International Migrants; Teresa Sobieszczyk 5. They Remember Me When I'm Gone': Remittances, Fatherhood And Gender Relations Of Filipino Migrant Men; Steven McKay PART II: REMITTANCES AND GENERATIONAL DYNAMICS OF CHANGE 6. Migrant Remittances, Population Ageing, And Intergenerational Family Obligations In Sri Lanka; Michele Ruth Gamburd 7. Differential Impacts Of Migration On The Family Networks Of Older People In Indonesia: A Comparative Analysis; Philip Kreager And Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill 8. Migration, Remittances, And Social And Spatial Organization Of Rural Households In China; Cindy C. Fan 9. Filipino Children And The Affective Economy Of Saving And Being Saved: Remittances And Debts In Transnational Migrant Families; Cheryll Alipio PART III: (NON)REMITTANCES AND THE FAMILY IN CRISIS 10. Rethinking Remittances through Emotion: Filipina Migrant Labourers in Singapore and Transnational Families Undone; Sallie Yea 11. Transnational Labour Migration, Debts, And Family Economics In Vietnam; Lan Anh Hoang And Brenda S.A. Yeoh.
• Edition: 2015
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 331.12795; Labor mobility -- Economic aspects -- Asia; Labor mobility -- Economic aspects -- Asia -- Case studies; Migrant remittances -- Asia; Migrant remittances -- Asia -- Case studies; Labor and globalization -- Asia; Labor and globalization -- Asia -- Case studies; Migrant laborers' families -- Asia -- Economic conditions; Migrant laborers' families -- Asia -- Economic conditions -- Case studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137506863
• Related ISBNs: 9781137506856
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