"Not a Real Worker": Gendering Migrants in Thailand's Shrimp Farms

International Migration

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 102-131

  Resurreccion, Bernadette P ^a   Sajor, Edsel E ^a  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER ROLE; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; MIGRANT WORKER; SENSE OF PLACE; SHRIMP FISHERY;

THAILAND;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); LAOTIA;

EID: 78649489039     PISSN: 00207985     EISSN: 14682435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2010.00620.x     Document Type: Article

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