Nicola Piper

Gebundenes Buch

New Perspectives on Gender and Migration

Livelihood, Rights and Entitlements

Herausgeber: Piper, Nicola

Beschreibung

This book discusses recent theoretical and empirical developments in international migration from a gender perspective.

Autor

Nicola Piper is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, the National University of Singapore. She was previously researcher at the Australian National University and the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies in Copenhagen and has also worked as consultant with UNRISD. She has written extensively written on gendered aspects of migration, especially in the area of governance, rights and empowerment, and on the human and labour rights of migrant workers. She has previous experience with editing inter-disciplinary volumes (Women and Work in Globalising Asia, 2002, Routledge; Transnational Activism in Asia, 2004, Routledge; Wife or Worker? Asians' Marriage and Migration, 2003, Rowman & Littlefield). In her own work she has promoted a broad inter-disciplinary conception of migration research and has also. Despite having mainly worked on Asia, she has more recently begun to take a more global outlook, especially when consulting various UN affiliated institutions (UNRISD, Global Commission for International Migration, the IOM).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 741g
• ISBN-13: 9780415956499
• ISBN-10: 0415956498
• Artikelnr.: 21828527