Gender and migration / edited by Caroline Sweetman. - Oxford : Oxfam, c1998. - 72 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. - Oxfam focus on gender .

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Editorial / Caroline Sweetman -- 'Frustrated and displaced': Filipin a domestic workers in Canada / Nona Grandea with Joanna Kerr -- Gujarat i migrants' search for modernity in Britain / Emma Crewe and Uma Kothar i -- Workers on the move: seasonal migration and changing social relati ons in rural India / Ben Rogaly -- Food shortages and gender relations in Ikafe settlement, Uganda / Lina Payne -- Mental illness and social s tigma: experiences in a Pakistani community in the UK / Erica L. Wheele r -- More words but no action? Forced migration and trafficking of wome n / Francine Pickup -- The use and abuse of female domestic workers fro m Sri Lanka in Lebanon / Lina Abu-Habib -- Migration, ethnicity, and co nflict: Oxfam's experience of working with Roma communities in Tuzla, B osnia-Hercegovina / Alex Jones -- Resources / compiled by Sara Chamberl ain.

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Women immigrants-- Social conditions.
Migration, Internal-- Social aspects.


Developing countries-- Emigration and immigration-- Social aspects .

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