Articles

"In Conflicting Commitments, Shannon Gleeson goes beyond the debate over federal immigration policy to examine the complicated terrain of immigrant worker... 
Employee rights | Illegal aliens | Foreign workers | Legal status, laws, etc | Texas | California | San Jose | Houston | Political Science

Philippines Emigration and immigration | Foreign workers, Filipino | Korea (South) Emigration and immigration | Women foreign workers | Citizenship | Civil rights | Social conditions

"In America's historical imagination, toil and triumph against nature and overwhelming odds characterizes such achievements as the Erie Canal and the... 
Railroads | Railroad construction workers | United States | Canals | Canal construction workers | History | Foreign workers | 19th Century | Mormons

In the early 1900s, thousands of immigrants labored in New Yorks Lower East Side sweatshops, enduring work environments that came to be seen as among the worst... 
Prevention | Clothing workers | Alien labor | Sweatshops | History | United States | Garment workers | Sociology | Political Science | Garment workers - United States - History

Hamer, Fannie Lou | Civil rights movements | African Americans | African American women civil rights workers | Civil rights | History | Civil rights workers

"The way in which families maintain long distance communication when they are separated because of migration has been revolutionised by the emergence of a... 
Foreign workers, Filipino | Communication in families | Children of foreign workers | Family relationships | Interpersonal communication | Women foreign workers | Communication, International | Technological innovations | Social aspects | Foreign workers, Philippine | Media Theory | Migration | Philippines | Diaspora | Kinship | Technologies | Ethnography & Methodology | Material Culture | Social & Cultural Anthropology | South East Asian Studies | Sociology of the Family | Polymedia | Sociology of Media | New Media | Family | Migrant Workers | Asia Pacific Studies | Communication | Communication, International - Technological innovations - Social aspects - Philippines

Women foreign workers | Foreign workers, Filipino | Filipino Americans | Women domestics | Social conditions

Human trafficking | Women foreign workers | Hostess clubs | Foreign workers, Filipino

Multinational Maids offers an in-depth investigation into the international migrations of Filipino and Indonesian migrant domestic workers. The author taps on... 
Indonesia Emigration and immigration | Philippines Emigration and immigration | Filipinos | Foreign workers, Filipino | Employment | Women foreign workers | Indonesians | Women household employees | Foreign workers, Indonesian | Philippines | Women migrant labor

" Hong Kong is a meeting ground for migrant domestic workers, traders, refugees, asylum seekers, tourists and businessmen, and local residents. At the heart of... 
Women immigrants | Women foreign workers | Emigration and immigration | Hong Kong (China) Emigration and immigration | Social aspects | Social conditions | Hong Kong (China) | Hong Kong | China | Anthropology | Women foreign workers - China - Hong Kong - Social conditions

"This book is an ethnographic witness to the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants. Based on five years of research in the field (including... 
Migrant agricultural laborers | Social conditions | Anthropology | United States

In a developing nation like the Philippines, many mothers provide for their families by traveling to a foreign country to care for someone else’s. Families... 
Mother and child | Philippines Emigration and immigrationSocial aspects | Working mothers | Filipinos | Immigrant families | Foreign workers, Filipino | Canada Emigration and immigrationSocial aspects | Women foreign workers | Women household employees | Canada | Emigration and immigration | Philippines | Foreign workers, Philippine | Social aspects | Political Science | Computer programming | Graph theory | Congresses | Computer algorithms

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... 
Foreign workers | European Economic Community countries | Women foreign workers | Poland | Warsaw

Interweaving her analysis with the women's individual stories, Constable shows how power is expressed in the day-to-day lives of Filipina domestic workers and... 
Filipinos | Foreign workers, Filipino | Employment | Women foreign workers | Indonesians | Women household employees | Foreign workers, Indonesian | Women household employees - China - Hong Kong | Alien labor, Indonesian | Women domestics | Alien labor, Philippine | Women alien labor

"Liberating Temporariness? explores the complex ways in which temporariness is being institutionalized as a condition of life for a growing number of people... 
Foreign workers | Social conditions | Canada | Political Science | Foreign workers, Canadian | Emigration and immigration