Foreign domestic workers in Singapore

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 117-138

  Wong, Diana ^a  

^a Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DOMESTIC WORK; LABOUR MIGRATION; WOMEN'S ISSUE; WOMEN'S MIGRATION;

ARTICLE; ASIA; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HUMAN RESOURCES; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION--WOMEN; LABOR MIGRATION--WOMEN; MANPOWER NEEDS; MIGRATION; MIGRATION POLICY; PHILIPPINES; POLICY; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION POLICY; SINGAPORE; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SOUTHEASTERN ASIA;

ASIA; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; HUMAN RESOURCES; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION--WOMEN; LABOR MIGRATION--WOMEN; MANPOWER NEEDS; MIGRATION; MIGRATION POLICY; PHILIPPINES; POLICY; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION POLICY; SINGAPORE; SOCIAL POLICY; SOUTHEASTERN ASIA;

ASIA; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HEALTH MANPOWER; PHILIPPINES; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PUBLIC POLICY; SINGAPORE; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

SINGAPORE;

EID: 0030471419     PISSN: 01171968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/011719689600500106     Document Type: Article

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