Thailand's hidden workforce : Burmese migrant women factory workers /: Burmese migrant women factory workers. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ruth Pearson & Kyoko Kusakabe.
• Authors: Pearson, Ruth, 1945-; Kusakabe, Kyoko
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 205 pages), illustrations, map
• Subjects: 331.5/44/0899580593 331.625910593; Women foreign workers -- Thailand -- Economic conditions; Women foreign workers -- Thailand -- Social conditions; Women foreign workers -- Legal status, laws, etc -- Thailand; Foreign workers, Burmese -- Thailand -- Economic conditions; Foreign workers, Burmese -- Thailand -- Social conditions; Women migrant labor -- Burma; Development studies; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations; Economic history; Women foreign workers -- Legal status, laws, etc; Women foreign workers -- Social conditions; Women migrant labor; Arbeitnehmerin; Migration; Thailand -- Economic conditions; Burma; Thailand; Birma; Thailand; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781848139862; 1848139861; 9781848139879; 1280769203; 9781280769207; 9786613679970; 6613679976
• Related ISBNs: 184813987X; 9781848139855; 1848139853; 9781848139848; 1848139845
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-198) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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