Briones, Leah <br/><br/>
Empowering migrant women: why agency and rights are not enough / 
Leah Briones 
 - 1st ed. 
 - London:  Ashgate,  2009. 
 - 231 p. 
<br/><br/>Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgments; Glossary;<br/><br/> PART I: Victims or Victors? Filipina Domestic Workers in Paris and Hong Kong; 1 Capability and International Labor Migration for Domestic Work; 2 Development: The Structural Context of Global Domestic Work Migration; <br/><br/>PART II: Agency and Filipina Overseas Domestic Work; 3 Empty Agency: The Oppressed Third World Woman; 4 Beyond Rights: Embodying and Empowering Agency; <br/><br/>PART III: Agency, Capability and Filipina Overseas Domestic Workers; 5 The FODW Institution. 6 A Capability Approach to Agency7 Agency, Capability and the Migrant Domestic Worker; <br/><br/>PART IV: Conclusion; 8 A Capable Agency Approach: Livelihood, Resources and Human Rights; Appendices; Appendix 1 Respondents' Profiles; Appendix 2 Profiles of NGOs and Associations Contacted during Fieldwork; Appendix 3 Typical Migration Cycle of a Migrant Worker; Appendix 4 RESPECT-Migrant Domestic Workers Charter of Rights: Rights, Equality, Solidarity, Power, Europe, Cooperation, Today; Appendix 5 Interview Schedule (English Version); Bibliography; Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780754675327 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Foreign workers -- Philippine--Women migrant labor -- Philippines
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>331.40899921  / BRI/E