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    Female Labour Migration in South-East Asia: Change and Continuity

    Asian Research Centre for Migration, Bangkok, 2001
    387 women returnees were interviewed for this study, in Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Yunnan province in China. They had returned from international labour migration, mostly as domestic helpers, caregivers, entertainers and sex workers, and a smaller proportion as workers in manufacturing or agriculture.
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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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    Combating trafficking [of women] in South-East Asia: a review of policy and programme responses

    International Organization for Migration, 2001
    It has been estimated that 200-225,000 women and children from Southeast Asia are trafficked annually. NGOs, inter-governmental organisations, government ministries, national and international bodies and human rights organisations and lobby networks have developed initiatives to combat the problem.
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    Children: Project Outline and Logframe for Future DFID Support to Southeast Asia Regional ILO-IPEC Programme to Tackle Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation

    BRIDGE, 1999
    Outline of a project in the ILO's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) which focuses on the trafficking of women and children from a human rights and labour exploitation perspective.
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    Owed Justice: Thai Women Trafficked into Debt Bondage in Japan

    2000
    Many thousands of women in Thailand accept offers to work in Japan each year deceived into thinking that they will be able provide a better livelihood for themselves and their families. Nearly all find themselves lumbered with excessive debts and forced to work under brutal conditions without compensation. Under International law, governments have an obligation to combat such abuses.

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