This study aims to analyze the economic adjustments of migrants in the labor receiving regions. It constructs a conceptual framework that attempts to establish that migrants' aspired income is an important motivational factor in determining women's work behavior in the post-migr…
In the last decade, labor migration of women from the former Soviet Union has grown exponentially. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Moldova, where 1/3 of the population works abroad, most illegally, and where about 1/2 of these migrants are women transnationally "commuting"…
This dissertation aims to show how three institutions, i.e. the family, the labor market and the state have shaped women's work experiences in Mexico and Turkey. Although Mexico and Turkey have certain similarities in terms of economic structure and policies, the socio-cultural …
The purpose of this study was to investigate Saudi people's attitudes toward (1) Saudi women working with men in hospitals regardless of their occupational prestige, (2) Saudi female administrative personnel, (3) Saudi female physicians, (4) Saudi female nurses and (5) admitting…
Lebanese women's labor and social identity underwent several transformations in the context of anticolonial resistance to French rule (1895-1943) and the restructuring of relations among workers, capital and the state from 1943 to 1997. I delineate women's adaptation to industri…
A discussion of the development of gender identity in women that includes an examination of the role of women in countries including Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Mexico and China. The book considers male bias to women and women in work.
