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  BRIDGE Bibliography 13: Gender and Migration in Asia: Overview and Annotated Bibliography

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  Labour markets have been transformed by the process of globalisation and migration in recent decades, and this transformation has had important but varied gendered dimensions and impacts. This bibliography highlights the key gender issues and concerns in relation to voluntary economic migration in Asia, both internal and cross-border.
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  The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decisions in London and Dhaka

  Verso Press, 2000

  In this study the lives of Bangladeshi garment workers are examined to highlight the question of what constitutes 'fair' competition in international trade. While Bangladesh is generally considered a poor, conservative Muslim country, with a long tradition of female seclusion, women here have entered factories to take their place as a prominent first generation labour force.
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  Global Migrants, Local Lives: Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh

  Clarendon Press, 1995

  Based on fifteen months fieldwork in a village in north-east Bangladesh this book tells of the transformation of local society and the individuals within it, much of which has been brought about through overseas migration to Britain, the Middle East, North America, and the Far East. Men monopolise and control important resources, and migration is no exception.
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  Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration and Domestic Work

  Stanford University Press, 2001

  Interviews with female Filipina domestic workers in Rome and Los Angeles are analysed. Conclusions drawn include that globalisation involves transnational redistribution of reproductive labour, between race and class, but not between the sexes. Privileged women in developed countries employ women from less privileged countries to do their reproductive labour.
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  Mapping Migration, Gender, Culture and Politics in the Indian Diaspora - Commemorating Indian Arrival in Trinidad

  Sameeksha Trust, 1998

  Many Indian women went to Trinidad as already independent women who made a conscious decision to move out of the difficult social situations which confronted them in India. These included deserted women, practising prostitutes and Brahmin widows. Paradoxically, upon arrival they were confronted with Trinidadian ideas of Indianness which equated Indian culture with subordination of women.
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  Gendering Transnational Communities: a Comparison of Singaporean and British Migrants in China

  2002

  Studies of transnational communities and transnational labour migration have focused almost exclusively on the movement of low-skilled and unskilled workers across international boundaries.
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  Transcending Boundaries: Labour Migration of Women from Bangladesh

  University Press Limited, Dhaka, 2001

  In recent times a major structuring of the global economy has taken place. This, among other things, has resulted in an increase in short-term migration of labour. An important feature of such restructuring is a high demand for female labour. A large number of Bangladeshi women have responded to such demand and joined the labour markets of Middle East and South East Asian countries.
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  Afghan Women and Transnational Feminism

  Association For Middle East Women’s Studies, USA, 2002

  What is the potential for the welfare and rights of Afghan women? Afghanistan is undergoing political transition, and the outcomes for women are unclear. Afghan women's welfare and rights have been attacked and struggled over throughout the twentieth century.
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  An Introduction to the General Agreement on Trade in Services for Gender Advocates

  2001

  This short piece provides an introduction to the WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). GATS is problematic because it encourages the privatisation of public services and amenities such as water, healthcare and education; it threatens to overrule domestic laws where these are perceived to hinder free trade; and the propositions within the agreement remain untested.
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  Trade Liberalization: Impacts on African Women

  2001

  Trade liberalisation processes impact differently on men and women due to the fact that men and women have different roles in production. Despite the fact that women are actively involved in international trade, WTO agreements are gender blind and as such have adverse impacts on women.

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