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Caring for Strangers. Filipino Medical Workers in Asia. By Megha Amrith . Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) Press, 2017. Pp. 226. ISBN 10: 8776941930; ISBN 13: 978-8776941932.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2018

Katrina Navallo
Katrina Navallo*
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Kyoto University E-mail katnavallo@asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
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International Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , January 2018 , pp. 140 - 142
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2 Filipino nurses’ entry to Singapore under the S visa allows them certain entitlements, such as ability to bring family members, which R permit holders are not entitled to.

3 Aguilar, Filomeno, Migration Revolution: Philippine Nationhood and Class Relations in a Globalized Age (Kyoto: Kyoto University Press and National University of Singapore Press, 2014), p. 136Google Scholar.

4 Camposano, Clement, “ Balikbayan Boxes and the Performance of Intimacy by Filipino Migrant Women in Hong Kong,” Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 12:1 (2012), pp. 83–103 CrossRefGoogle Scholar (p. 88).