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  • The Migration-Development Nexus, Women Workers, and Transnational Employment Relations

    Author(s)
    Gunawardana, Pemasiri
    Mhando, Lindah
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Gunawardana, Pemasiri J.
    Year published
    2014
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    Abstract
    This chapter explores the interplay of the migration–development nexus, unskilled women’s migration patterns, and the transitions taking place in and around global and local labour markets and employment relations. Although states have sought to both facilitate migration into precarious employment positions and to step in to protect workers, migration has exposed the limitations of extant paradigms that take nation-states as a unit of analysis for development and employment relations. The state’s role is underscored by the existence of a complex and textured field of gendered and socially embedded institutions and governance ...
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    This chapter explores the interplay of the migration–development nexus, unskilled women’s migration patterns, and the transitions taking place in and around global and local labour markets and employment relations. Although states have sought to both facilitate migration into precarious employment positions and to step in to protect workers, migration has exposed the limitations of extant paradigms that take nation-states as a unit of analysis for development and employment relations. The state’s role is underscored by the existence of a complex and textured field of gendered and socially embedded institutions and governance mechanisms, which has made migrant workers particularly vulnerable to precarious conditions.
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    Book Title
    Oxford Handbook of Employment Relations: Comparative Employment Systems
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199695096.013.025
    Subject
    Business and Management not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/140961
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