Racialised sexualities: The case of Filipina migrant workers in East Malaysia

Gender, Place and Culture

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 611-628

  Hilsdon, Anne Marie ^a   Giridharan, Beena ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Heterosexuality; Malaysia; Migration; Racialisation

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; IMMIGRATION POLICY; MIGRANT WORKER; MIGRANTS EXPERIENCE; MIGRATION; RACIAL IDENTITY; SEXUALITY;

ASIA; EAST MALAYSIA; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 57549102929     PISSN: 0966369X     EISSN: 13600524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09663690802518529     Document Type: Article

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