Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care A Multi-Scalar Approach to t
This book explores how around the world, women’s increased presence in the labor force has reorganized the division of labor in households, affecting different regions depending on their cultures, economies, and politics; as well as the nature and size of
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Sonya Michel • Ito Peng Editors
Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care A Multi-Scalar Approach to the Pacific Rim
Editors Sonya Michel Department of History University of Maryland College Park, Maryland, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-55085-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-55086-2
Ito Peng Department of Sociology University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada
ISBN 978-3-319-55086-2 (eBook)
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We would like to thank the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for their generous grant in support of the research that has made this volume possible. The project has been funded by the SSHRC Partnership Grant on Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care ((File No: 895-2012-1021), Ito Peng, Principal Investigator. We also thank the institutional partners who have contributed to our research: Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada; the Asia Pacific Foundation; Asian Research Center for the Intimate and Public Spheres at Kyoto University; Asian Immigrant Advocates; Asia Research Institute at National University of Singapore; Asian Women at Work; Centre for International Research on Care, Labour & Equalities (CIRCLE) at the University of Sheffield; the Centre for Sustainable Organization and Work Employment and Social Development Canada; Human Rights Research and Education Centre at University of Ottawa; Kookmin University; the International Labor Office (ILO); the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), Was
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