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Negotiating Respectability: Migrant Women Workers’ Perceptions of Relationships and Sexuality in Free Trade Zones in Sri Lanka

Malin JordalInternational Maternal and Child Health (IMCH), Department of Women and Children's Health, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Kumudu WijewardenaDepartment of Community Medicine, Sri Jayawardenapura University, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka
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Ann ÖhmanUmeå Centre for Gender Studies; Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine; and Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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Birgitta EssénInternational Maternal and Child Health (IMCH), Department of Women and Children's Health, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
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Pia OlssonInternational Maternal and Child Health (IMCH), Department of Women and Children's Health, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
Pages 658-676 | Received 29 Apr 2013, Accepted 28 Oct 2013, Published online: 30 Jan 2014

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Malin Jordal, Ann Öhman & Kumudu Wijewardene. (2020) Respectability and rights. Sexual and reproductive health and rights of Sri Lankan women formerly involved in prostitution. Contemporary South Asia 28:1, pages 28-42.
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Pius Tangwe Tanga & Magdaline Nji Tangwe. (2014) Interplay between economic empowerment and sexual behaviour and practices of migrant workers within the context of HIV and AIDS in the Lesotho textile industry. SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS 11:1, pages 187-201.
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Lilian Miles, Tim Freeman, Lai Wan Teng, Suziana Mat Yasin & Kelvin Ying. (2021) Empowerment as a pre-requisite to managing and influencing health in the workplace: The sexual and reproductive health needs of factory women migrant workers in Malaysia. Economic and Industrial Democracy 43:4, pages 1676-1698.
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Catherine E. Harnois & Sandya Hewamanne. (2020) Categorical Variables Without Categorical Thinking? A Relational Reading of the Sri Lankan Demographic and Health Survey. Gender Issues 37:4, pages 355-375.
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Jane Brandt Sørensen, Thilini Agampodi, Birgitte Refslund Sørensen, Sisira Siribaddana, Flemming Konradsen & Thilde Rheinländer. (2017) ‘We lost because of his drunkenness’: the social processes linking alcohol use to self-harm in the context of daily life stress in marriages and intimate relationships in rural Sri Lanka. BMJ Global Health 2:4, pages e000462.
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Helen Benedict Lasimbang, Wen Ting Tong & Wah Yun Low. (2016) Migrant workers in Sabah, East Malaysia: The importance of legislation and policy to uphold equity on sexual and reproductive health and rights. Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology 32, pages 113-123.
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Malin Jordal, Kumudu Wijewardena, Ann Öhman, Birgitta Essén & Pia Olsson. (2015) ‘Disrespectful men, disrespectable women’: Men’s perceptions on heterosexual relationships and premarital sex in a Sri Lankan Free Trade Zone - a qualitative interview study. BMC International Health and Human Rights 15:1.
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