TY  - BOOK
AU  - Briones, Leah
TI  - Empowering migrant women: why agency and rights are not enough
SN  - 9780754675327
U1  - 331.40899921 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Foreign workers -- Philippine
KW  - Women migrant labor -- Philippines
N1  - Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgments; Glossary;

 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; 

PART II: Agency and Filipina Overseas Domestic Work; 3 Empty Agency: The Oppressed Third World Woman; 4 Beyond Rights: Embodying and Empowering Agency; 

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; 

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
ER  -