The fourteen chapters in this edited volume come from scholarly papers presented February 23–25, 2004, at the International Workshop on Contemporary Perspectives on Asian Transnational Workers, an event organized by the Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis of the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. It is the most up-to-date volume addressing the role of women migrant workers: their plights, as well as their contributions to the economies of their countries of origin and countries of destination. The chapters serve as a good introduction to the rising demand of foreign workers in Asian countries such as Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand, whose state-led industrialization in the 1970s led many women into the labor market, thus resulting in crises of whom should care for the children and the elderly at home. The volume also includes chapters that analyze the absence of transnational domestic workers in Australia and Japan...

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