Global migrations, old forms of labor, and new transborder class relations

Southeast Asian Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 137-161

  Aguilar Jr , Filomeno V ^a  

^a ATENEO DE MANILA UNIVERSITY   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Class formation; Construction industry; Domestic work; International migration; Nationalism; Seafaring; The state; Transnationalism

Indexed keywords

CLASS; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; LABOR MIGRATION; LABOR RELATIONS; SOCIAL CHANGE;

EID: 0345581413     PISSN: 05638682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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