In 2006, the United Nations reported on the “feminization” of migration, noting that the
number of female migrants had doubled over the last five decades. Likewise, global …

Migrant women are the primary source of paid domestic labor around the world. Since the
1980s, the newly prosperous countries of East Asia have recruited foreign household …

Middle-class Chinese women in the global city of Hong Kong have entered the workforce in
unprecedented numbers over the past three decades, and the demand for foreign domestic …

In this new edition of this best selling text, interdisciplinary feminist experts from around the
world provide new analyses of the ongoing relationship between gender and neoliberal …

The Women, Gender and Development Reader is the definitive volume of literature
dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the …

Noting that much of the literature on transnationalism is gender blind, we consider what a
focus on gender brings to understanding transnationalism. Tracing a feminist itinerary shows …

People of South Asian descent are a large, varied and increasingly visible part of Hong
Kong's population. Most have found ways of prospering despite social and economic …

By linking the experiences of immigrant families with the increased reliance on cheap and
flexible workers for care and domestic work in Southern Europe, this study documents the …

In recent years, women's transnational labor migration from Moldova has grown
exponentially and their absence from families has provoked considerable anxiety over …

Progress in Human Geography reviews of population geography in recent years have
appraised the most recent work throughout the subdiscipline. While these have been …