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Article: Middle East Avenue: Female Migration from Sri Lanka to the Gulf
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Nancy E. Gallagher
Domes
10-31-1994
Middle East Avenue: Female Migration from Sri Lanka to the Gulf.
In Middle East Avenue: Female Migration from Sri Lanka to the Gulf, Grete Brochmann, a senior researcher at the Institute of Social Research in Oslo, lays the groundwork for future studies on gendered labor migration. She begins with the necessary observation that remittances from migrant work are a major source of foreign currency for many governments. She considers labor migration to be a complex social process to be analyzed from the international level to the individual level. In her book, she studies the interplay of the various levels in this social process, focusing on Sri Lankan ...