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Engaging in Trans-local Management of Households: Aspects of Livelihood and Gender Transformations among Sri Lankan Women Migrant Workers

Pinnawala, M. ; Gender Technology and Development, Vol. 12(3), 2008

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 ...
Gender Transformation and Female Migration: Sri Lankan Domestic Workers Negotiate Transnational Household Relations

Pinnawala, M. ; Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Institute of Social Studies, the Hague, Netherlands, 2009

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 ...
I am Back: Returned Migrant Women and Changes in the Social Organization of the Household

Pinnawala, M. ; CENWOR - Thirteenth National Convention on Women’s Studies, 27-30 July 2012

During the last few decades, male dominated migration of professionals and skilled workers was replaced by female migration for unskilled domestic work mainly to the Middle East countries. This created a social upheaval ...
Why should I Do Everything Myself: Migration and Employment of Women in Sri Lanka

Pinnawala, M. ; Annual Academic Sessions, Open University of Sri Lanka, 2012

Women’s empowerment is said to be the process whereby women have the strength and confidence to challenge the accepted norms of gender inequality prevalent in many societies. Empowerment also means that women take control ...

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