Japan's biopolitical crisis

International Feminist Journal of Politics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 278-296

  MacKie, Vera ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

biopolitics; care work; gender; globalization; Japan; migration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903312754     PISSN: 14616742     EISSN: 14684470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616742.2013.780938     Document Type: Review

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