Negotiating Social Boundaries and Private Zones: The Micropolitics of Employing Migrant Domestic Workers

Social Problems

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 525-549

  Lan, Pei Chia ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 0346332974     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/sp.2003.50.4.525     Document Type: Review

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