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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data ISBN: 978-1-63485-301-9 (eBook) Published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. † New York Complimentary Contributor Copy CONTENTS Preface vii List of Contributors ix Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Migration, Labor Market and Wellbeing: Theories, Policies and Practice 3 Qingwen Xu and Lucy Jordan Part I: Precarious Job, Low-Skill Workers and Health and Mental Health 27 Chapter 2 Migrant Domestic Workers and the Provision of Care: Current Challenges and Future Directions 29 Lenore E. Matthew and Noreen M. Sugrue Chapter 3 Social Support, Acculturation, and Financial Stability among Mexican Economic Migrants 45 Aimee Hilado, Philip Young Hong, Maria Vidal de Haymes and Marta Lundy Chapter 4 HIV/AIDS and Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa 61 Soma Sen and Jemel P. Aguilar Chapter 5 Assessing Psychosocial Stress of Puerto Rican Women in the United States: The Hispanic Women’s Social Stressor Scale 77 Yong Li, Blanca M. Ramos and Young Do Part II: Internal Migration and Rights to Welfare 93 Chapter 6 Poor Living and Working Conditions, Social Isolation, and Coping Strategies of Migrant Laborers in Hanoi, Vietnam 95 Trang Mai Le, Tuan-Anh Nguyen and Huong Ngoc Nguyen Chapter 7 Challenges and Solutions of Food Security among Seasonal Migrants: The Case of Seasonal Migration in India 115 Anjali B. Borhade and Mengxi Zhang Complimentary Contributor Copy vi Contents Chapter 8 The Welfare Boundary: A Hidden Mechanism of the Hukou Regulation and Migrant Workers’ Rights in China 125 Gaoming Ma and Qiaobing Wu Part III: Workers on the Move and Social Identity 135 Chapter 9 ‘Keeping Your Seat Warm’: The Role of Seafarers’ Wives in the Maintenance of Social Status and Societal Place 137 Helen Sampson and Iris Acejo Chapter 10 Migrant Transnational Labor: Work, Identity, and Social Welfare of Seafarers 155 David Jaffee and Suzie S. Weng Chapter 11 Opportunities and Challenges of Return Migration 171 Uma A. Segal Chapter 12 The Highly-Skilled in Hong Kong ‘Asia’s World City’ 191 Narine N. Kerelian and Lucy P. Jordan Epilogue: The Way Forward 213 Lucy Jordan and Qingwen Xu Index 221 Complimentary Contributor Copy PREFACE Worldwide labor migration has transformed and reshaped various fields of government policy and professional practice. Despite its economic feature, labor migration is associated with non-economic social phenomena that scholars have increasingly paid attentions to in both sending and receiving destinations. For practitioners in the field of education, medicine, nursing, social work, mental health, public health, and other professional practices, the human face of labor migration — migrant workers’ and their families’ daily challenges — often reveals the human cost of migration behind the image of economic gain and benefits. Migrant workers and their families are facing vexing challenges ranging from basic needs to psychosocial wellbeing, despite who they are and where they come from. Traditional ways of thinking and knowing cannot address these challenges adequately; rather, established divisions of professions, systems, disciplines, and/or areas of practice might just be the factor that constrains the ability to clearly articulate compelling problems and adds an additional layer of complexity to problem solving. This book focuses on country policies and practices, and draws on theoretical ideas that provide the intellectual basis. In addition, it offers vivid examples of how migrant workers manage to work, pursue economic security, strive and adjust in new communities, define and negotiate self and identity, and seek health and wellbeing. While the book illuminates shared challenges and experiences for each groups of migrant workers, i.e., low-skilled workers, internal migrants and other types of migrating laborers, the book also synthesizes the intersectionality across all migrant workers, as they remain committed to bettering the lives of their families and communities, in origin countries and new host countries and communities. This volume reflects the efforts of interdisciplinary research and collaboration. Based on empirical studies and policy analysis, the researchers draw broader implications for evidence- based practice and policy in migration studies, and offer practical suggestions for policy and service delivery design, including formal and informal mechanisms of support which can inform the professional reader. When we worked on this collection, more than a million migrants and refugees started and continue to cross into Europe, a crisis as countries have struggled to cope with the influx and deal with resettling people, a regional crisis which is also creating division within the European Union. Such a crisis stresses the increasing concerns about the intractability of massive social problems linked to migration, economic inequality, and social intolerance. It is our hope that this book will stimulate further debate and discussion to improve the lives of diverse groups of migrants, and promote more inclusive strategies and policies at the local, Complimentary Contributor Copy viii Qingwen Xu and Lucy P. Jordan national and supranational levels, policies that will recognize the multifaceted experience of migrants, their families, and the communities they inhabit both near and far. With all the appreciation, we thank our contributors for their dedications to working with migrant workers and their families and communities, guiding policy and practice through rigorous research, and promoting a just global society. Qingwen Xu from New Orleans Lucy P. Jordan from Hong Kong Complimentary Contributor Copy LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Iris L. Acejo, Ph.D., is a research associate at Seafarers International Research Centre of the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, United Kingdom. Dr. Acejo received