The Web‐based Recruitment of Female Foreign Domestic Workers in Asia

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ID20153483
AuthorsJames A Tyner (Kent State University, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume20
Issue2
Pages193-209
Publication date1999-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSingapore Journal of Tropical Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0129-7619 • E-ISSN: 1467-9493
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9493.00054
OpenAlexW2048640691
LanguageEN
Citations received20

In the last three decades, there has been an increased “feminisation” of international migration within the Asian region. In part, the increased mobility of women migrant workers within Asia has resulted from the increased bureaucratic regulation of labour migration. This commodification of the migratory process, however, has placed women in significantly more vulnerable positions vis‐ ́‐vis their male counterparts. Comparatively little research, however, has examined the critical role of private recruitment agencies, and especially the use of the Internet, within the migratory process. In this paper, I examine the Web‐based recruitment strategies of private recruitment agencies in Asia. Based on a qualitative analysis of 25 recruitment‐related Web sites, I suggest that the commercialisation of migration serves an important “socialisation” process that contributes to the vulnerability and exploitation of female foreign domestic workers

Bureaucracy · Business · Commodification · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Geography · Migrant workers · Political science · Vulnerability (computing) · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Work-Family Balance Challenges

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