Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: THE GLOBAL MIGRATION OF FILIPINO DOMESTIC WORKERS -- Chapter 2: THE INTERNATIONAL DIVISION OF REPRODUCTIVE LABOR -- Chapter 3: THE TRANSNATIONAL FAMILY -- Chapter 4: GENDER AND INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS -- Chapter 5: CONTRADICTORY CLASS MOBILITY --...

Global Talent seeks to examine the utility of skilled foreigners beyond their human capital value by focusing on their social capital potential, especially their role as transnational bridges between host and home countries. Gi-Wook Shin and Joon Nak Choi build on an emerging stream of research...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Elaine H. Kim -- Introduction by Craig Scharlin and Lilia V. Villanueva -- Still good at sitting down" -- A matter of survival" -- The most important 2 in my life" -- So close to the good life" -- I sacrificed too much..." -- A minority within a minority" -- The...

A Continent Moving West? argues that the conceptualization of migration as a one-way or long-term process is becoming increasingly wide of the mark. Rather, east-west labor migration in Europe, in common perhaps with other flows in and from other parts of the world, is diverse, fluid, and...

Offers a brief introduction to ILO's knowledge base on Asia and the Pacific. The resource kit can be useful to people who have a general interest in the issues as well as specialists who need additional technical resources.

Transnational society is a new field of study, just as brain circulation is a new development strategy for the global South. This book contributes to the growing scholarship on transnational society and brain circulation, thus highlighting the dynamic social practices already underway.

This book is about migration as a form of risk-taking. Based on Ukrainian women's experiences in the Polish domestic work sector, it presents a new approach to analyse movements of female migrants responding to the demand for household labour around the world. Risks involved in migration and in...

This succinct, readable introduction to Chinese migration traces the huge population movements both within China and beyond its borders over thousands of years. Distinguished historian Diana Lary explores these migrations and the key roles they have played in Chinese history. She sees migration...