Negotiating social location as a workplace strategy: Gorkhali women migrant domestic workers and South Asian employers in Bangkok.
Social location involves multiple axes of gender, work, ethnicity, migration status, age and access to networks; and can be manipulated when the individual determines to change it. These axes of differentiation interact with social hierarchies in different ways to change a person's social location....
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 49; no. 11; pp. 2932 - 2950 |
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Jun2023
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