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Evidence from this ethnographic study suggests that the "migration work" performed by female spouses of guest workers enables temporary labor migration. Findings also indicate that a gendered culture of migration perpetuates dependency on temporary labor migration and extends precarity to spouses of migrant workers within this transnational kinship network.
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