Gender Care And Migration In East Asia

Author : Reiko Ogawa,Raymond K.H. Chan,Akiko S. Oishi,Lih-Rong Wang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811070259

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Gender, Care and Migration in East Asia by Reiko Ogawa,Raymond K.H. Chan,Akiko S. Oishi,Lih-Rong Wang Pdf

This collection provides a comparative analysis of care arrangements in relation to issues of gender and transnational migration, social policy and labour migration in East Asia. Bridging the key topics of migration and gendered cared work through cross country comparisons, it examines how care work and welfare arrangements have been shaped by national and global forces against the backdrop of changing gender relationships, the rise of female labour force participation, low fertility rates and population aging in East Asia. It particularly addresses the ‘feminization of migration’ which is a salient feature of migration in Asia today as more women from developing countries undertake domestic work and care work in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong. Addressing the issue of care in relation to employment, care and migration regimes in East Asia and the interaction among welfare regimes, labour markets and work-care balance, this collection provides an up-to-date assessment of gendered transnational migration in the region and sheds light on local and transnational policies and practices which aim to improve the welfare of families and migrant workers.

Author : Reiko Ogawa,Raymond K.H. Chan,Akiko S. Oishi,Lih-Rong Wang
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9811070245

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Gender, Care and Migration in East Asia by Reiko Ogawa,Raymond K.H. Chan,Akiko S. Oishi,Lih-Rong Wang Pdf

This collection provides a comparative analysis of care arrangements in relation to issues of gender and transnational migration, social policy and labour migration in East Asia. Bridging the key topics of migration and gendered cared work through cross country comparisons, it examines how care work and welfare arrangements have been shaped by national and global forces against the backdrop of changing gender relationships, the rise of female labour force participation, low fertility rates and population aging in East Asia. It particularly addresses the ‘feminization of migration’ which is a salient feature of migration in Asia today as more women from developing countries undertake domestic work and care work in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong. Addressing the issue of care in relation to employment, care and migration regimes in East Asia and the interaction among welfare regimes, labour markets and work-care balance, this collection provides an up-to-date assessment of gendered transnational migration in the region and sheds light on local and transnational policies and practices which aim to improve the welfare of families and migrant workers.

Author : Siumi Maria Tam,Wai Ching Angela Wong,Danning Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134738878

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Gender and Family in East Asia by Siumi Maria Tam,Wai Ching Angela Wong,Danning Wang Pdf

The on-going reconfiguration of geo-political and economic forces across the globe has created a new institutional and moral environment for East Asian family life and gender dynamics. Indeed, modernisation in East Asia has brought about increases in women’s education levels and participation in the labour force, a delay in marriage age, lower birth rates, and smaller family size. And yet, despite the process of modernization, traditional systems such as Confucianism and patriarchal rules, continue to shape gender politics and family relationships in East Asia. This book examines gender politics and family culture in East Asia in light of both the overwhelming changes that modernization and globalization have brought to the region, and the structural restrictions that women in East Asian societies continue to face in their daily lives. Across three sections, the contributors to this volume focus on marriage and motherhood, religion and family, and migration. In doing so, they reveal how actions and decisions implemented by the state trigger changes in gender and family at the local level, the impact of increasing internal and transnational migration on East Asian culture, and how religion interweaves with the state in shaping gender dynamics and daily life within the family. With case studies from across the region, including South Korea, Japan, mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, gender studies, anthropology, sociology and social policy.

Author : Marian Baird,Michele Ford,Elizabeth Hill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317313151

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Women, Work and Care in the Asia-Pacific by Marian Baird,Michele Ford,Elizabeth Hill Pdf

This book provides a comparative analysis of the social, economic, industrial and migration dynamics that structure women’s paid work and unpaid care work experience in the Asia-Pacific region. Each country-focused chapter examines the formal and informal ways in which work and care are managed, the changing institutional landscape, gender relations and fertility concerns, employer and trade union responses and the challenges policy makers face and the consequences of their decisions for working women. By covering the entire region, including Australia and New Zealand, the book highlights the way different national work and care regimes are linked through migration, with wealthier countries looking to their poorer neighbours for alternative sources of labour. In addition, the book contributes to debates about the barriers to women’s participation in the workforce, the valuation of unpaid care, the gender wage gap, social protection and labour regulation for migrant workers and gender relations in developing Asia.

Author : Sonya Michel,Ito Peng
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319550862

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Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care by Sonya Michel,Ito Peng Pdf

This book explores how around the world, women’s increased presence in the labor force has reorganized the division of labor in households, affecting different regions depending on their cultures, economies, and politics; as well as the nature and size of their welfare states and the gendering of employment opportunities. As one result, the authors find, women are increasingly migrating from the global south to become care workers in the global north. This volume focuses on changing patterns of family and gender relations, migration, and care work in the countries surrounding the Pacific Rim—a global epicenter of transnational care migration. Using a multi-scalar approach that addresses micro, meso, and macro levels, chapters examine three domains: care provisioning, the supply of and demand for care work, and the shaping and framing of care. The analysis reveals that multiple forms of global inequalities are now playing out in the most intimate of spaces.

Author : Esther Ngan-ling Chow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317795209

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Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia by Esther Ngan-ling Chow Pdf

Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia brings together a collection of original essays from top scholars in the United States and Asia to explore the centrality of gender in the process of economic development in East Asia. Contributors demonstrate through ethnography, personal narratives, field observation, and in-depth interviews the essential parts women have played in the national growth, economic restructuring, and industrialization of East Asian countries, including South Korea, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and China.

Author : Theresa W. Devasahayam
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789812309556

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Gender Trends in Southeast Asia by Theresa W. Devasahayam Pdf

As a region, Southeast Asia has undergone enormous economic and social changes in the last few decades. Women as a collective have seen their lives transformed as a result of rapid development and economic growth. In exploring the progress made by Southeast Asian men and women, this book seeks to answer the following questions: (a) In what areas have women been able to achieve parity with men? (b) In what areas do women encounter specific disadvantages based on their gender as compared with men? and (c) How have womens concerns and problems been addressed by the governments in this region with the aim of encouraging gender equality? As the title of this book suggests, the chapters provide an analysis of the broad trends - including changes and continuities - in the experiences, interests and concerns of Southeast Asian women. The chapters examine the trends related to women in the following arenas: the family, economic participation, politics, health, and religion. In some arenas, the trends reflect the disadvantages women face, which in turn have led to gender gaps; in other areas, women's progress has been found to eclipse that of the men, although this tends to be the exception.

Author : Nicola Piper,Keiko Yamanaka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015062889822

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Gender, Migration and Governance in Asia by Nicola Piper,Keiko Yamanaka Pdf

Author : Angela Ki Che Leung,Izumi Nakayama
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888390908

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Gender, Health, and History in Modern East Asia by Angela Ki Che Leung,Izumi Nakayama Pdf

This groundbreaking volume captures and analyzes the exhilarating and at times disorienting experience when scientists, government officials, educators, and the general public in East Asia tried to come to terms with the introduction of Western biological and medical sciences to the region. The nexus of gender and health is a compelling theme, for this is an area in which private lives and personal characteristics encounter the interventions of public policies. The nine empirically based studies by scholars of history of medicine, sociology, anthropology, and STS (science, technology, and society), spanning Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong from the 1870s to the present, demonstrate just how tightly concerns with gender and health have been woven into the enterprise of modernization and nation-building throughout the long twentieth century. The concepts of “gender” and “health” have become so commonly used that one might overlook that they are actually complicated notions with vexed histories even in their native contexts. Transposing such terminologies into another historical or geographical dimension is fraught with problems, and what makes the East Asian cases in this volume particularly illuminating is that they present concepts of gender and health in motion. The studies show how individuals and societies made sense of modern scientific discourses on diseases, body, sex, and reproduction, redefining existing terms in the process and adopting novel ideas to face new challenges and demands. “Whether reviewing the comparative national histories of birth control, debating early cases of transsexual surgery, or highlighting the resurgence of ‘traditional’ Asian medical commodities, this volume provides accessible and productive studies on these intriguing topics in Asia. Scholars of modern East Asia and indeed anyone concerned with the analysis of gender and health in light of intersecting postcolonial studies will find the book rewarding.” —Rayna Rapp, New York University “A bold and important volume that explores the interweaving of gender, body, and modernity throughout East Asia. With vivid articles on sexuality, reproductive technologies, and sexual identities, the book opens multiple possibilities for how ‘Asia as method’ can shine new light on persistent theoretical questions from biopower to biocitizenship.” —Ruth Rogaski, Vanderbilt University

Author : Keiko Yamanaka,Nicola Piper,United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
Publisher : Geneva : UNRISD
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : East Asia
ISBN : 9290850647

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Feminized Migration in East and Southeast Asia by Keiko Yamanaka,Nicola Piper,United Nations Research Institute for Social Development Pdf

Author : David W. Haines,Keiko Yamanaka,Shinji Yamashita
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857457417

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Wind Over Water by David W. Haines,Keiko Yamanaka,Shinji Yamashita Pdf

Providing a comprehensive treatment of a full range of migrant destinies in East Asia by scholars from both Asia and North America, this volume captures the way migrants are changing the face of Asia, especially in cities, such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, and Singapore. It investigates how the crossing of geographical boundaries should also be recognized as a crossing of cultural and social categories that reveals the extraordinary variation in the migrants' origins and trajectories. These migrants span the spectrum: from Korean bar hostesses in Osaka to African entrepreneurs in Hong Kong, from Vietnamese women seeking husbands across the Chinese border to Pakistani Muslim men marrying women in Japan, from short-term business travelers in China to long-term tourists from Japan who ultimately decide to retire overseas. Illuminating the ways in which an Asian-based analysis of migration can yield new data on global migration patterns, the contributors provide important new theoretical insights for a broader understanding of global migration, and innovative methodological approaches to the spatial and temporal complexity of human migration.

Author : Regional Thematic Working Group on International Migration Including Human Trafficking
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : East Asia
ISBN : UCBK:C121227757

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Situation Report on International Migration in East and South-East Asia by Regional Thematic Working Group on International Migration Including Human Trafficking Pdf

Author : Megha Amrith,Nina Sahraoui
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351846219

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Gender, Work and Migration by Megha Amrith,Nina Sahraoui Pdf

Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315225210 While the feminisation of transnational migrant labour is now a firmly ingrained feature of the contemporary global economy, the specific experiences and understandings of labour in a range of gendered sectors of global and regional labour markets still require comparative and ethnographic attention. This book adopts a particular focus on migrants employed in sectors of the economy that are typically regarded as marginal or precarious – domestic work and care work in private homes and institutional settings, cleaning work in hospitals, call centre labour, informal trade – with the goal of understanding the aspirations and mobilities of migrants and their families across generations in relation to questions of gender and labour. Bringing together rich, fieldwork-based case studies on the experiences of migrants from the Philippines, Bolivia, Ecuador, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Mauritius, Brazil and India, among others, who live and work in countries within Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South America, Gender, Work and Migration goes beyond a unique focus on migration to explore the implications of gendered labour patterns for migrants’ empowerment and experiences of social mobility and immobility, their transnational involvement, and wider familial and social relationships.

Author : International Organization for Migration
Publisher : International Organization for Migration
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9290684534

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Gender and Labour Migration in Asia by International Organization for Migration Pdf

Globally, the landscape of international migration has become increasingly diversified as a result of broader changes in the global economy in addition to policy shifts in recent years. Over the last 30 years, Asia has been a region of movement and migration whether first to the Gulf countries in the 1970s or to the booming Asian tiger economies in the late 1980s. However, what has developed especially since the 1990s has been a "gendered migration process." The increased visibility of women as labour migrants in the region has brought a number of economic and social issues to the forefront. Furthermore, the vulnerability of male migrants in terms of rights, access to services and the change in gender roles is another issue highlighted, yet under researched. Gender and Labour Migration in Asia, which contains country chapters on Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and China, aims to place gender on the labour migration and development agenda in Asia.

Author : Jieyu Liu,Junko Yamashita
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317337331

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Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies by Jieyu Liu,Junko Yamashita Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies presents up-to-date theoretical and conceptual developments in key areas of the field, taking a multi-disciplinary and comparative approach. Featuring contributions by leading scholars of Gender Studies to provide a cutting-edge overview of the field, this handbook includes examples from China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong and covers the following themes: theorising gender relations; women’s and feminist movements; work, care and migration; family and intergenerational relationships; cultural representation; masculinity; and state, militarism and gender. This handbook is essential reading for scholars and students of Gender and Women’s Studies, as well as East Asian societies, social policy and culture.