Women Workers, Migration and Family in Sarawak

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ID19948144
AuthorsCheng Sim Hew (corresponding author)
Year2003
Publication date2003-08-27
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueWomen Workers, Migration and Family in Sarawak (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203221792
OpenAlexW576568139
Open LibraryOL38751691M
ISBN9780203221792
LanguageEN
Citations received5

In many parts of South-East Asia, women's lifestyles are going through enormous changes as women move from traditional rural, agricultural lifestyles to modern, urban lifestyles, which often involve migration to cities, taking on paid work, and having a quite different relationship with their families. This book, based on intensive research among the women of the Bidayuh people in Sarawak, all of them first generation migrant wage workers, explores the extent to which women's lifestyles are changing, and the reasons which prompt women to make the changes. How far are such women driven by economic considerations, how far by dissatisfaction with traditional lifestyles, and how far by the appeal of a glamorous urban lifestyle? The author's research includes detailed interviews in the field, and much of this interview material is included in the book, thereby enabling the Bidayuh women to tell their own stories as they grapple with the rapid changes swirling around them

Context (archaeology) · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Geography · Index (typography) · Labour economics · Sociology · Wage · Work (physics) · Engineering · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Bidayuh Women · Business & Economics · Dayak Women · Employment · Ethnology · Labor · Labor & Industrial Relations · Malaysia · Minority women · Political science · Rural-urban migration · Sarawak · Social conditions · Women

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