Political participation and empowerment of foreign workers: Gendered advocacy and migrant labour organising in southeast and east asia

New Perspectives on Gender and Migration: Livelihood, Rights and Entitlements

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 247-273

  Piper, Nicola ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 84925763910     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203936085     Document Type: Chapter

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