Care, social (re)production and global labour migration: Japan's 'special gift' toward 'innately gifted' Filipino workers

New Political Economy

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 489-516

  Onuki, Hironori ^a  

^a University of Toronto   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; LABOR MIGRATION; LABOR MOBILITY; LABOR SUPPLY; SKILLED LABOR;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; PHILIPPINES; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 70649096952     PISSN: 13563467     EISSN: 14699923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13563460903287306     Document Type: Article

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