Khmer women on the move : exploring work and life in urban Cambodia /

Khmer Women on the Move offers a fascinating ethnography of young Cambodian women who move from the countryside to work in Cambodia's capital city, Phnom Penh. Female migration and urban employment are rising, triggered by Cambodia's transition from a closed socialist system to an open mar...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Derks, Annuska (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2008.
Series:Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.
Subjects:
Young women > Cambodia > Social conditions.
Urban women > Cambodia > Social conditions.
Urban women > Employment > Cambodia.
Jeunes femmes > Cambodge > Conditions sociales.
Femmes en milieu urbain > Cambodge > Conditions sociales.
Femmes en milieu urbain > Travail > Cambodge.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Life Stages > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Urban women > Employment
Urban women > Social conditions
Young women > Social conditions
Migration
Stadt
Lebensbedingungen
Frau
Levnadsförhållanden > städer > Kambodja.
Unga kvinnor.
Arbetsmarknad.
Förvärvsarbete.
Unga kvinnor > sociala förhållanden > Kambodja.
Kvinnor i städer > sociala förhållanden > Kambodja.
Kvinnor i städer > arbete och arbetsmarknad > Kambodja.
Cambodia
Kambodscha.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Rice people in the city
  • Women, ideals and migration
  • Factory work
  • Sex work
  • Street trade
  • City life and modern experience
  • Dutiful daughters, broken women
  • Conclusion: Moving women, moving selves.

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