Migration, immigration and emigration Books
NIAS Press At a Moment’s Notice: Indonesian Maids Write on
Book SynopsisLife abroad for Indonesian women hired as domestic workers is more than the job. In their spare time, some will plan a better life back home when their work contract ends. Others will venture out to experience the cities (like Singapore, Hong Kong and Taipei) where they now work, even posing as locals and living life to the fullest. And some of these women can write. Recently, a new genre of Indonesian women’s literature has developed, one in which – often in short stories – authors reimagine their experiences as domestic workers in foreign lands. Now, for the first time, a selection of these stories has been collected and translated into English. Collectively, these stories provide an honest description of the complex and multifaceted reasons for working abroad, the maids’ living and working conditions, and their hopes and dreams for a better life. The stories are also a delightful read.
£73.00
NIAS Press At a Moment’s Notice: Indonesian Maids Write on
Book SynopsisLife abroad for Indonesian women hired as domestic workers is more than the job. In their spare time, some will plan a better life back home when their work contract ends. Others will venture out to experience the cities (like Singapore, Hong Kong and Taipei) where they now work, even posing as locals and living life to the fullest. And some of these women can write. Recently, a new genre of Indonesian women’s literature has developed, one in which – often in short stories – authors reimagine their experiences as domestic workers in foreign lands. Now, for the first time, a selection of these stories has been collected and translated into English. Collectively, these stories provide an honest description of the complex and multifaceted reasons for working abroad, the maids’ living and working conditions, and their hopes and dreams for a better life. The stories are also a delightful read.
£26.62
Aarhus University Press Re-Mapping Exile: Realities & Metaphors in Irish
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£12.00
Brepols Publishers Conceptualising Early Colonisation
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£90.25
Hong Kong University Press Race Panic and the Memory of Migration
Book SynopsisThe contributors to this volume were asked to think about a panic involving race and migration of immediate concern to them. The results are a collection of essays which deal with the fabrication of an idea of race and its historical dimensions.
£22.09
Hong Kong University Press China Abroad – Travels, Subjects, Spaces
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£31.27
NUS Press Urbanization, Migration and Poverty in a
Book SynopsisWith the shift to a market economy, Ho Chi Minh City became a magnet for migrants and experienced rapid growth. Migration provides labor for economic growth in Ho Chi Minh City, and remittances sent by migrants to rural communities help to limit urban-rural inequality. But rural-urban migration creates a heavy burden for the city's physical and social infrastructure. ""Urbanization, Migration, and Poverty in a Vietnamese Metropolis"" presents the results of a major interdisciplinary research project that gathered data on more than one thousand households in Ho Chi Minh City over a three-year period, and on migration flows at the urban destination and in four sending communities in different regions of Vietnam. The study shows that migration to Ho Chi Minh City has been shaped both by urban-rural inequality and by regionally diverse socio-cultural dynamics. It also demonstrates that despite official claims concerning poverty reduction in Ho Chi Minh City, urban poverty rose, particularly among migrants. The research findings indicate that microcredit and other poverty reduction programs had little impact on the socio-economic mobility of households, but that the well-being of many households improved as a result of growth-related economic opportunities as well as the effects of social networks and processes of household formation.
£32.02
Neus Retour a Wenzhou
£45.30
Viella Editrice Turpi Traffici: Prostituzione E Migrazioni Globali. 1890-1940
£27.43
£33.00
University of Illinois Press Un Un Nuevo Camino
£8.99
