Gender and migration /

Gender and migration / edited by Caroline Sweetman. - Oxford : Oxfam, c1998. - 72 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. - Oxfam focus on gender .

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Includes bibliographical references.

Editorial / Caroline Sweetman -- 'Frustrated and displaced': Filipina domestic workers in Canada / Nona Grandea with Joanna Kerr -- Gujarati migrants' search for modernity in Britain / Emma Crewe and Uma Kothari -- Workers on the move: seasonal migration and changing social relations in rural India / Ben Rogaly -- Food shortages and gender relations in Ikafe settlement, Uganda / Lina Payne -- Mental illness and social stigma: experiences in a Pakistani community in the UK / Erica L. Wheeler -- More words but no action? Forced migration and trafficking of women / Francine Pickup -- The use and abuse of female domestic workers from Sri Lanka in Lebanon / Lina Abu-Habib -- Migration, ethnicity, and conflict: Oxfam's experience of working with Roma communities in Tuzla, Bosnia-Hercegovina / Alex Jones -- Resources / compiled by Sara Chamberlain.

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Women immigrants--Social conditions.
Migration, Internal--Social aspects.


Developing countries--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.