Management versus rights: Women's migration and global governance in Latin America and the Caribbean

Feminist Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 35-61

  Basok, Tanya ^a   Piper, Nicola ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gendered migration; Global governance; International organizations; Latin America and the Caribbean; Migrant worker rights

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865058578     PISSN: 13545701     EISSN: 14664372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2012.690525     Document Type: Article

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