GENDERED TECHNOLOGIES OF POWER: Experiencing and Unmaking Borderscape in South Asia.
Across South Asia, women migrate for employment within their home countries, within the region, and to more distant destination countries. Despite regular and ongoing transit, they are subject to restrictions on their mobility. How do migrant women workers confront and resist these restrictions? Thi...
| Publicado en: | Berkeley Planning Journal Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 45 - 78 |
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Berkeley Planning Journal
2017
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