Mobilizing piety: Gendered morality and Indonesian-Saudi transnational migration

Mobilities

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 219-229

  Silvey, Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gender; Indonesia; Islam; Saudi Arabia; Transnational migration

Indexed keywords

GENDER ISSUE; ISLAMISM; LABOR MARKET; LABOR MIGRATION; MORALITY; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; JAVA; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; MIDDLE EAST; SAUDI ARABIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 34547111545     PISSN: 17450101     EISSN: 1745011X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450100701381565     Document Type: Article

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