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Much of the literature on migrants in the work-force, in Australia as overseas, has tended to paint a picture of passive victims — unskilled, weak and lacking the ability to shape their own fate or to defend themselves against exploitation or the marginality of secondary or reserve army of labor status.1 On the other hand, an alternative emphasis has drawn attention to the resources of many of these workers in skills, industrial and trade union experience and community solidarities not always available to native workers.2 In the case of migrant women, the first approach has predominated, although there has been some emphasis on ways waged work can provide liberation from traditional patriarchy.3
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Ip, D., Lever-Tracy, C. (1999). Asian Women in Business in Australia. In: Kelson, G.A., DeLaet, D.L. (eds) Gender and Immigration. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333983461_4
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