TY - BOOK ID - 77866044 TI - Women in motion : globalization, state policies, and labor migration in Asia PY - 2005 SN - 0804766908 142374943X 9781423749431 9780804766906 0804746370 9780804746373 0804746389 9780804746380 PB - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Women foreign workers KW - Women's rights KW - Women in development KW - Migration, Internal KW - Internal migration KW - Mobility KW - Population geography KW - Internal migrants KW - Foreign women workers KW - Women alien labor KW - Migrant women labor (Foreign workers) KW - Migrant women workers (Foreign workers) KW - Women migrant labor (Foreign workers) KW - Women migrant workers (Foreign workers) KW - Foreign workers KW - Women employees KW - Rights of women KW - Women KW - Human rights KW - Civil rights KW - Law and legislation KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Asia KW - Asian and Pacific Council countries KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Eurasia KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Government policy. KW - Sociology of work KW - Migration KW - Labour KW - Government policy KW - Globalization UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77866044 AB - Women make up about half of the world's migrants, so it is little surprise that the international migration of women has been attracting significant attention in recent years. Most agree that global restructuring increasingly forces a large number of women in developing countries to emigrate to richer countries. But is poverty the only motivating factor? In Women in Motion, Nana Oishi examines the cross-national patterns of international female migration in Asia. Drawing on fieldwork in ten countries—both migrant-sending and migrant-receiving—the author investigates the differential impact of globalization, state policies, individual autonomy, and various social factors. This is the first study of its kind to provide an integrative approach to and a comparative perspective on female migration flows from multiple countries. ER -