Trading labour-trading rights: The regional dynamics of rights recognition for migrant workers in the Asia-Pacific

Transnational Migration and Work in Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 213-233

  Ball, Rochelle ^a   Piper, Nicola ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 33644806394     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203029084     Document Type: Chapter

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