Screen LibraryBangladeshi Migration to Singapore : A Process-Oriented Approach /
This book examines international labour migrants in the context of South South migration with a focus on Bangladeshi migration to Singapore. Two principal questions in the South South migration are addressed: Why and how individuals migrate for work; and what impact this temporary form of migration...
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Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Singapore : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3858-7 |
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This book examines international labour migrants in the context of South South migration with a focus on Bangladeshi migration to Singapore. Two principal questions in the South South migration are addressed: Why and how individuals migrate for work; and what impact this temporary form of migration has for migrants and their families. The book adopts a relatively new methodological approach to labour migration by linking different phases that migrants undergo in the migration process and by combining migrants in the host country with their families in the origin country. This is achieved thr |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(XX,198pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9789811038587 |
| Index Number: | GN370 |
| CLC: | D523.8 |
| Contents: | List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Labour, Migration and Policy Framework -- Chapter 3: Social Underpinning of Migration Decision-Making -- Chapter 4: Recruitment of Migrant Labor: Demand for and Supply of Migrant Labour -- Chapter 5: Social and Economic Life of Migrants -- Chapter 6: The Remittance Process: Sending, Receipt and Control -- Chapter 7: Emigration and Empowerment -- Chapter 8: Conclusion -- Index. |