1st Edition
Working Gendered Boundaries Temporary Migration Experiences of Bangladeshi Women in the Malaysian Export Industry from a Multi-Sited Perspective
By Anja Rudnick
Copyright 2009
316 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study explores the short term migration of Bangladeshi women to Malaysia to work inlabour intensive, export oriented factories, and considers the consequences of their decisionto migrate.While international migration is a much discussed issue, so far little attention has been given to the vast flow of South-to-South migration, which is particularly large in Asia. The labour migration flows... Read more
1. INTRODUCTION, 2. ENGENDERING MIGRATION THEORY, 3. THE SENDING AND THE RECEIVING COUNTRY: BANGLADESH AND MALAYSIA, 4. THE FIELD SETTING: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES REGARDING GENDER-SENSITIVE RESEARCH, 5. WHY MIGRATE?, 6. FROM DESIRE TO DECISION AND DEPARTURE, 7. WORKING IN MALAYSIA’S EXPORT INDUSTRY: CONDITIONS AND WAGES, 8. LIVING IN MALAYSIA: NEGOTIATING TWO CULTURES, 9. BACK IN BANGLADESH: A NEW BEGINNING?, 10. CONCLUSIONS, REFERENCES, SUMMARY, SAMENVATTING
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Anja Rudnick
