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Domestic Service in Thailand: Reflection of Conflicts in Gender, Class and Ethnicity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2004

Raya Muttarak
Raya Muttarak
Affiliation:
The Department of Sociology at Oxford University. Her e-mail contact is rayamut@yahoo.co.jp
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Abstract

This study discusses paid domestic service employment in Thailand. Disparities in income distribution in the country and elsewhere in Southeast Asia provide a supply of domestic workers. Despite being commonly known as an exporter of domestic workers, Thailand is in fact a primary importing country as well. Domestic service is an arena in which gender, class and ethnicity collide.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , October 2004 , pp. 503 - 529
Copyright
© 2004 The National University of Singapore

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Footnotes

This article is an adaptation of my Master of Arts thesis in International Relations submitted to the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University. I would like to express my gratitude to Prof. Glenda Roberts, my supervisor, for her guidance, advice and thoughtful suggestions, as well as Prof. Eiji Murashima and Dr Tom Gill for their valuable comments. I also wish to thank the Rotary International and the Tokio Marine Kagami Memorial Foundation for their gracious funding during my study in Japan.