[asia-apec 507] Impact of Asian Crisis on Migrants

[jane kelsey]

John, could you check when sending messages that you're not sending 
them to the whole network? Thanks.
On Wed, 01 Jul 1998 22:08:13 -0700 John Price <joprice at unixg.ubc.ca> 
wrote:

> Dear Rex: Could you please e-mail me your 10 page report on migrant
> workers, I am presenting a report on the Asian crisis for July 23 and would
> like to include a section on migrant workers.  
> 
> Sincerely
> John Price
> Vancouver
> At 07:41 PM 6/29/98 +0800, you wrote:
> >29 June 1998
> >
> >Dear Friends,
> >
> >The Asian Migrant Centre (AMC) will release next week the maiden issue of
> >our Asian Migrant Yearbook (AMY) 1998. AMY 98 is a 170-page yearbook which
> >contains reports on the situation of migrant workers in 16 Asian countries.
> >It also has special sections on globalisation and migration, violence
> >against women migrants, trafficking, churches' response, and the impact of
> >the Asian crisis on migrants. For subscription information, email us at
> ><amc at hk.super.net>.
> >
> >One section of AMY 98 will be "A Year After: Surveying the Impact of the
> >Asian Crisis on Migrant Workers". This is a 10-page report on the effects
> >of the ongoing crisis on migrants. It highlights some of the quatitative
> >effects on workers and migrants in Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, South
> >Korea, Malaysia, Hong Kong, etc. Our analysis is that the ongoing turmoil
> >is not simply a "financial" or "currency" crisis, but a comprehensive
> >economic and social crisis which has become more vicious and widespread
> >because of the unrelenting drive of these countries towards neoliberal
> >global economic integration.
> >
> >Please email us if you want an advance file copy (in MS Word 6.0 format) of
> >the Asian crisis paper.
> >
> >You can also visit our (recently launched) website at
> ><http://www.hk.super.net/~mrhr> for additional information on Asian migrant
> >workers.
> >
> >Thank you very much.
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >
> >Rex Varona
> >Asian Migrant Centre
> >4 Jordan Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong
> >Tel: (852) 2312-0031   Fax: (852) 2992-0111
> >Email: amc at hk.super.net   web: http://www.hk.super.net/~mrhr
> >
> John Price
> University of Victoria 
> Currently in Vancouver (April-August)
> Tel. 604 437-5866  Fax 604 437-7014

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jane kelsey
j.kelsey at auckland.ac.nz