Regulation and resistance: Strategies of migrant domestic workers in Canada and internationally

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 31-57

  Stasiulis, Daiva K ^a   Bakan, Abigail B ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMIGRANT POPULATION; MIGRANT WORKERS; RESISTANCE;

ARTICLE; CANADA; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HUMAN RESOURCES; HUMAN RIGHTS; LABOR FORCE; LAW; MIGRANT WORKERS; MIGRATION; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; OCCUPATIONAL STATUS; POLICY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMERICAS; CANADA; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; HUMAN RESOURCES; HUMAN RIGHTS; LABOR FORCE; LEGISLATION; MIGRANT WORKERS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; OCCUPATIONAL STATUS; POLICY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

AMERICAS; CANADA; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH MANPOWER; HUMAN RIGHTS; LEGISLATION; NORTH AMERICA; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

CANADA;

EID: 0031419981     PISSN: 01171968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/011719689700600103     Document Type: Article

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