Kitchen Spoon's Handle Transnationalism and Sri Lanka's Migrant Housemaids

Name: Kitchen Spoon's Handle Transnationalism and Sri Lanka's Migrant Housemaids
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ISBN: 9780801486449

ISBN-10: 0801486440

ISBN-13: 9780801486449

Edition: 2000

Authors: Michele Ruth Gamburd

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 10/24/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Labor Migration: National and International Contexts	p. 25
Administrative Structures: Getting a Job Abroad	p. 48
Moneylenders: Crucial Resources and Crippling Interest Rates	p. 75
Agency: Women's Work Experiences Abroad	p. 99
Control of Remittances: Prosperity and the Extended Family	p. 123
Caste Relations: Social Mobility and Land Reform	p. 151
Breadwinners No More: Masculinity in Flux	p. 173
Migrant Mothering: On Love and Money	p. 193
Immoral Maid and Abusive Employer: The Horror Story Genre	p. 209
Conclusion	p. 232
An Orthography of Spoken Sinhala	p. 245
Calculating Inflation in Sri Lanka	p. 248
Bibliography	p. 251
Index	p. 267
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