Transnational networks in female labour migration

International Migration in Southeast Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 166-198

  Wee, Vivienne ^a   Sim, Amy ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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