[asia-apec 498] Re: Impact of Asian Crisis on Migrants

[GABRIELA-Philippines]

Please give us an advance copy.  Thank you! I don't know if we could read MS
Word 6, but to make sure could we have it in rich text format o rtf?  it is
alright?  Thanks.

Norma Nacaytuna
GABRIELA Commission on
International Relations 


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
>
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