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Female labor migrants to Shanghai: Temporary "floaters" or potential settlers?
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Female Labor Migrants to Shanghai:
Temporary "Floaters" or Potential
Settlers?1
Using data on 54,373 migrants from the Fifth Sampling Survey of the Floating Population of Shanghai, this article isolates a group of 32,967 rural labor migrants who hold rural household registrations and whose previous occupations were in agriculture, and focuses on the women among them. The demographic and occupational characteristics of these 9,124 women are described, demonstrating that...
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Female labor migrants to Shanghai: Temporary "floaters" or potential settlers?
The International Migration Review
; ... Shanghai in cooperation with the city's education department (Xinhua News Agency, 1997). In fact, the government's concern about the education ... 1990s). Shanghai: East China Normal University Press. Xinhua News Agency 1997 "Immigrants in Shanghai Set Up Their Own School ...
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China's "tidal wave" of migrant labor: What can we learn from Mexican undocumented migration to the United States?
The International Migration Review
; ... Cartier, M. 1991 "The Fourth Census," China News Anal April 14, 1-9. Chan, K W 1996 "Post ... Home in Villages." China Daily July 3. China News Digest (CND) 1994 Reuters, September 26. Cited in China News Digest (News Global), September 27. Available ...
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The Seed Was Planted: The Sao Paulo Roots of Brazil's Rural Labor Movement, 1924-1964
Business History Review
; The Seed Was Planted: The Sao Paulo Roots of Brazil's Rural Labor Movement, 1924-1964. By Cliff Welch. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. 448 pp. Cloth, $65. ISBN 0-271-01788-0. Reviewed by Hendrik Kraay "[R]ural workers, especially those in Sao Paulo [state], contributed
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Determinants of rural labor market participation in Tanzania.(economic development)
African Studies Quarterly
; Abstract: Participation in rural off-farm activities (outside a household's own farm) is one of the livelihood strategies among poor rural households in many developing countries. One component of off-farm activities accessible to the very poor is wage labor because it does not require any
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Caribbean women: labor migrants and traders.
Ahfad Journal
; This paper focuses on the twentieth century, intra-regional, labor migration treks of eastern Caribbean women, and examines the long term structural effects that female labor migration has had on Caribbean family arrangements. The paper concludes that female labor migration has become one of the
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Rural migrants in Shanghai: Living under the shadow of socialism
The International Migration Review
; Rural Migrants in Shanghai: Living Under the Shadow of Socialism1 This article examines the fate of rural migrants in Shanghai, China's largest metropolis. Relying on data from a representative survey, it provides a profile of recent rural migrants and analyzes the pattern of occupational and
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Labor Migration, Remittances and Household Income: A Comparison between Filipino and Filipina Overseas Workers1
The International Migration Review
; The major purpose of the research is to examine gender differences in patterns of labor market activity, economic behavior and economic outcomes among labor migrants. While focusing on Filipina and Filipino overseas workers, the article addresses the following questions: whether and to what extent
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The Seed Was Planted: The Sao Paulo Roots of Brazil's Rural Labor Movement, 1924-1964.(Review)
History: Review of New Books
; Welch, Cliff The Seed Was Planted: The Sao Paulo Roots of Brazil's Rural Labor Movement, 1924-1964 University Park: Penn State University Press 413 pp., $65.00 cloth, $25.00 paper ISBN 0-2710-1789-9 cloth ISBN 0-2710-1788-0 paper Publication Date: February 1999 Cliff Welch, coordinator of Latin
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National Disaster in Progress: Brain Drain in Armenia
Armenian Reporter, The
; Yerkanian, Artem Armenian Reporter, The 01-15-2000 National Disaster in Progress: Brain Drain in Armenia Gevorg Muradian, 35, in Soviet times was an engineer. All was well - he had a good job, good career prospects and a family. At the age of 29 he was in charge of one of the largest departments of
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After emancipation: aspects of village life in Guyana, 1869-1911.
The Journal of Negro History
; After emancipation the actions of many British Caribbean sugar plantation workers created conditions that led to new relations with former masters, separate communities away from the plantations for themselves, and renewed migration from Africa. In the decades that followed complete emancipation in
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