Korea operates an Employment Permit System to legally recruit foreign workers to the country. Most of the hiring Korean companies are satisfied with this system. Korea has signed MOUs with fifteen countries for the import ...

With the women migrants assuming the role of the family income earner, a new dimension to migration and household management has been added. Physical and spatial separation from their families results in the management and ...

This study has been carried out on Sri Lankan migrant women working in Lebanon. The sexual lives of these women have been examined, and the predominant issues brought out have been the abuse and exploitation of women ...

Sri Lanka is one of the highest suppliers of female labour for domestic work to the Middle East. This study attempts to explore the migrants’ experiences both at their home and destination countries through a survey in the ...

This article is a comprehensive review of the changing face of families and households due to the changes in demography, socio economic factors and societal norms. One aspect covered in this paper is the progressively ...

Presently, the destination of over 90% of Sri Lankan labour migrants constitute the Middle East region. Other significant facts are that most of the labour is in the unskilled category, and females dominate in this category. ...

Much attention has been paid to the impact of international labour migration on macro economic development and to the migrants as well, with female migrants dominating studies. This paper focuses on the pattern of gender ...

The study is based on analysing the changes wrought in gender relations, household management and power dynamics in the household as a consequence of female migration. Information is obtained through a number of returnee ...

Foreign workers in Japan has been the lowest when compared with OECD countries, in the past. From around the 1990s the scenario demonstrated a slight change, with the number of workers showing a rapid growth, with Sri ...

Asia is one of the largest suppliers of migrant women sent for domestic work in the Arab states. In Sri Lanka, the economic gains through such migration, amounts to almost 8% of its GDP. In recent years, a number of women ...