Nationality matters: SARS and foreign domestic workers' rights in Taiwan province of China

International Migration

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 121-145

  Loveband, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMESTIC WORK; MIGRANT WORKER; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; WORKING CONDITIONS;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN; WORLD;

EID: 10944269784     PISSN: 00207985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0020-7985.2004.00304.x     Document Type: Article

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